Julia Tertulla was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century and 2nd century in the

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. Tertulla was the daughter of suffect consul Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus and the identity of her mother is unknown. Tertulla was born and raised in

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, the capital of the

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. She was the paternal aunt to

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. She married Lucius Julius Marinus Caecilius Simplex, a

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. He was

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of Lycia et Pamphylia from 96-98 and served as a consul in 101 during the reign of the Roman Emperor

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. In the city of Tlos, Lycia there is an honorary inscription dedicated to her as the wife of Caecilius Simplex. This dedication was most probably done when her husband served as a legatus Augusti in that province.

Sources

*Shelagh Jameson
"Cornutus Tertullus and the Plancii of Perge"
''Journal of Roman Studies'', 55 (1965), pp. 54-58 *Jones, Brian W. (1992). ''The Emperor Domitian'', Routledge *{{Cite book , publisher = Routledge , isbn = 0-415-28917-3 , pages = xvi , last = Grainger , first = John D. , title = Nerva and the Roman succession Crisis AD 96-99 , location = London, New York , date = 2003 , oclc = 52012210 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QHrQoDLNBUIC&dq=Iotape+of+Commagene&pg=PT19 People from Roman Anatolia 1st-century Roman women 1st-century Romans 2nd-century Roman women Tertulla