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19-DEC-2008

Istanbul december 2009 7219 Agrippina.jpg

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Agrippina the Elder, this one from Pergamon, first half 1st century AD.
From the Wikipedia: Julia Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina the Elder or Agrippina Major (Major is Latin for the elder, Classical Latin: AGRIPPINA•GERMANICI,[1] 14 BC – 18 October 33) was the distinguished and prominent Roman granddaughter of Augustus. She lived between the 1st century BC and 1st century AD. Agrippina was the wife of the general, politician Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors. She was the second granddaughter to the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law to the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law to the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

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