Plautilla Antoninianus NGC Certified Slab

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Fulvia Plautilla was a Roman noblewoman married to emperor Caracalla. Apparently, the marriage was short and deeply unhappy, likely never consummated, and ended when Caracalla accused Plautilla's entire family of treason, and she and her brother were exiled and eventually strangled.

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Publia Fulvia Plautilla (died 211) was the wife of the Roman emperor Caracalla, her paternal second cousin. After her father was condemned for treason, she was exiled and eventually killed, possibly on Caracalla's orders.^[2]^[3]

Plautilla was born and raised in Rome. She belonged to the gens Fulvia of ancient Rome. The Fulvius family was of plebeian origin, came from Tusculum, Italy and had been active in politics since the Roman Republic. Plautilla's father, however, came from the Leptis Magna, in North Africa (located in modern-day Libya).^[4]

Her mother was named Hortensia; her father was Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, the Commander of the Praetorian Guard, consul, paternal first cousin and close ally to Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus (the father of Caracalla). She also had a brother, Gaius Fulvius Plautius Hortensianus.