Cornelia Salonina

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This arch, a gate in the Servian Walls of Rome, was dedicate to Gallienus and SALONINAE SANCTISSIMAE AUG, "to Salonina most holy Augusta.

Cornelia Salonina (d. 268, Milan) was an Augusta, wife of Roman Emperor Gallienus and mother of Valerianus, Saloninus, and Egnatius Marinianus.

Salonina has an extensive coinage.

Her name is reported on coins with Latin legend as Cornelia Salonina; however, from the Greek coinage come the names Iulia Cornelia Salonina, Publia Licinia Cornelia Salonina, and Salonina Chrysogona (attribute that means "begotten of gold").

She was married to Gallienus before 242.

Salonina saw the murder of her husband in 268, in front of the walls of sieged Milan.

[edit] References

• "Salonina", Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited William Smith (1870).
• Partial Salonina coinage

[edit] External links

• Media on Julia Cornelia Salonina in the Wikicommons.