Manlia Scantilla

Coin of Manlia Scantilla (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Manlia Scantilla: name of a Roman empress, wife of Didius Julianus (briefly emperor in 193).

Life

Maried to Didius Julianus

Mother of Didia Clara

193, 28 March: Death of Pertinax; Didius Julianus becomes emperor
Manlia Scantilla receives the rank of Augusta
193, 1 June: Didius Julianus executed by soldiers of Septimius Severus
Manlia Scantilla buries her husband's body

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