Eumachia

Eumachia was a Roman entrepreneur and priestess in the Pompeii of the early Roman Empire.

Eumachia was the daughter of Lucius Eumachius, a rich, Campanian entrepreneur who made ​​his money, especially with the wine and a brickyard. Probably at the time of Augustus was a branch of the family to Pompeii. Here Eumachia married a man from the influential and rich family of Numistrier. Both had a son, Marcus Numistrius Fronto.

After the death of her husband Eumachia inherited his wool trading company. Thus they became one of the most influential figures of Pompeii, which especially deserves mention, because she was a woman and women, such a rise was rarely granted. She brought it to the saint of the Drapers Guild, one of the leading colleges of the city. In this capacity, she let the build in her and on behalf of her son named after her building Eumachia the forum of Pompeii, which may be the Kollegiengebäude the cloth merchant guild was.

Eumachia was also a priestess of Venus and thus held out another upscale office. An endowed by the Drapers Guild honor statue shows her in the guise of a priestess.

On the Street of Tombs in front of the gate was Noceraner Eumachia build a representative tomb for herself and her household.