Pompeia Plotina
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Pompeia Plotina was Roman empress from 98 to 117 as the wife of Trajan. She was renowned for her interest in philosophy, and her virtue, dignity and simplicity. She was particularly devoted to the Epi
Bust of Plotina, exhibited in the Vatican Museums.
Pompeia Plotina coin, celebrating the Fides on the reverse.
Hadrian
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Hadrian was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. His form of address as Roman emperor was Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus. Hadrian was born in Italica, in the present-day Andalusian province of
Pompeia Plotina
…awarded her with the title of Augusta, but she did not accept the title until 105. Plotina did not appear on coinage until 112. When the future emperor Hadrian and his sister were 10 or 11 years old, they lost their parents. Trajan and the Roman officer Publius Acilius Attianus became the children's guardians…
Bust of Hadrian, c. 130; State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich
Hadrian's Arch in central Athens, Greece. Hadrian's admiration for Greece materialised in such projects ordered during his reign
Bust of Emperor Trajan; Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse
![A denarius of Hadrian issued in 119 AD for his third consulship. The legends read as: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS / LIBERALITAS AVG. CO[N]S III, P. P.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Hadrianus_coin_-_119.jpg/500px-Hadrianus_coin_-_119.jpg)
A denarius of Hadrian issued in 119 AD for his third consulship. The legends read as: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS / LIBERALITAS AVG. CO[N]S III, P. P.