104. Mariniana.
[Date and place of birth and death unknown.]
Little is known respecting this Princess, who was either wife, sister, or daughter of the Emperor Valerian, and died at least four years before his Persian expedition. Some coins, having on the obverse her name and a veiled head, were struck, A.D. 254.
105. Faustina Junior—Annia Faustina.
[Date and place of birth unknown. Died A.D. 175.]
The daughter of Antoninus Pius, and wife of Marcus Aurelius, whom she accompanied into Asia, and there died suddenly. One of the most abandoned and dissolute of the Roman Empresses, yet her virtuous husband preserved his first affection for her to the last; and, on the spot where she died, erected to her honour the city of Faustinopolis.
[From the Capitoline Museum, at Rome. The original is in the marble called “Paonazzetto” (peacock-stone).]
105A. Faustina.
[This bust, which is from the Florence Collection, bears the name of “Faustina, Junior.” It is a beautiful bust, well preserved, but bears little resemblance to the preceding portrait. If it really represent the same person, the work has been executed by a more flattering hand.]
106. Sabina—Poppæa. Roman Empress.