Domitia Lucilla Minor

Domitia Lucilla Minor sometimes known as Domitia Calvilla or Lucilla, was a noble Roman woman of considerable wealth and influence. She is best known as the mother of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who described her as a “pious and generous” person who lived a simple life.

Through her mother’s inheritance, Domitia came into possession of a great fortune which included a tile and brick factory near Rome close to the river Tiber. Her factory provided brick for building some of the most famous monuments of ancient Rome such as the Colosseum, Pantheon and the Market of Trajan. She even exported bricks to remote France, Spain, North Africa and her bricks could be find all over the Mediterranean. Her son would later inherit the tile and brick factory.

Lucilla married Marcus Annius Verus from a wealthy senatorial family with whom he had two children – the daughter and a son. She spent her final years living with her son in Rome.