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Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata also known as Cornelia Volusia Torquata Licinia was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century and first half of the 2nd century.
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Family background and early life
Torquata was the daughter and only known child born to the distinct, wealthy Romans Volusia Cornelia and Senator Marcus Licinius Scribonianus Camerinus. Her mother was a daughter of the Politician Quintus Volusius Saturninus from his wife Nonia Torquata. Her father was a son of Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, consul of 64 from his wife Sulpicia Praetextata. She was born and raised in Rome. Her name reveals that she was related to the gens, Licinia, gens Volusia, the Patrician gens Cornelia and her cognomen Torquata shows she may had some relations to the gens, Junia.
Marriage and issue
Torquata married her mother’s paternal first cousin Lucius Volusius Saturninus. He served as an Augur and a Suffect consul who lived in ca. 80.
Torquata bore Saturninus two daughters:
Inscriptional evidence
The name of Torquata has been found in a funerary inscription in Rome. The inscription is dated from the second half of the 1st century til the first half of the 2nd century, is now on display at the National Museum of Rome. The inscription which reads in Latin is translated in English:
Licinia Cornelia/M(arci) f(ilia) Volusia/Torquata/L(uci) Volusi co(n)s(ulis)/auguris Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata, the daughter of Marcus, the wife of Lucius Volusius, consul, augur.