Volusia Cornelia

Volusia Cornelia, also known as Cornelia Volusia was a Roman woman of Patrician status who lived in the late 1st century. She was the daughter of the senator Quintus Volusius Saturninus, suffect consul in 92. She was born and raised in Rome. Her cognomen Cornelia, she inherited from paternal great-grandmother Cornelia Lentula, the daughter of the consul of 3 BC, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus from the gens Cornelia.

Inscriptionals Volusia is known through various surviving inscriptions. The evidence reveals she was a wealthy, distinguished woman of the Senatorial class. She owned a private luxurious villa in Nemi, the previous possession of the Roman emperor Caligula. After the theatre was restored, her deed was recorded in a monumental inscription. One branch of the Volusii family had a praedium in the area of Nemi and a fistulae bearing the name of Volusia was also found.

The plaque is on display at the National Museum of Rome. She was also a donor at the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi.