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Bruttia Crispina, Roman Empress (164 - 191)

Wife of Roman Emperor Commodus. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruttia_Crispina Relationships: Bruttia Crispina was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (07 Mar 150-182)

Commodus (Aug 161-31 Dec 192) was a husband of Bruttia Crispina
References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) Crispina, wife of Commodus. Female figure with a dish in her right hand and a spear in her left.
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d)
161 Head of Crispina the Wife of Commodus. CRISPINA .......... Reverse a Female Figure standing in her right Hand a Patera in her Left a spear SC Letters not legible. Casaubon
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d)
162 Head of Crispina. CRISPINA AVGVSTA Reverse a Figure sitting Letters not legible Casaubon
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 44 Commodus 4, Crispina 1, Pertinax 1, Albinus 2, Sept. Severus 21, vide N° 448., 452, 453., 455, 456., 458., 461 to 464., 467., 469, 470 to 486 29