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Vipsania Polla

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Parents
  
Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa

Siblings
  
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Nieces
  
Vipsania Agrippina, Agrippina the Elder, Julia the Younger, Vipsania Marcella

Nephews
  
Agrippa Postumus, Gaius Caesar, Lucius Caesar

Similar
  
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Vipsania Agrippina, Agrippa Postumus, Julia the Younger, Agrippina the Elder

Vipsania polla


Vipsania Polla was the daughter of Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa (a man of equestrian rank) and sister to another Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, as well as the Roman general and politician Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Polla lived during the late Roman Republic and during the reign of Rome's first Emperor Augustus.

Although Polla was a distinguished woman, little is known of her life. She is remembered chiefly for overseeing construction of a monument called the Porticus Vipsania, a map of the Roman Empire engraved in marble. Marcus Agrippa started the construction of this map before his death in 12 BC. The Porticus Vipsania was once displayed in Rome, not far from the Via Flaminia.

Although the Porticus Vipsania has not survived, a description of it is given in Natural History by Pliny the Elder, and it is also known through the Peutinger Map.

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Vipsania Polla Wikipedia


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