Women of Baetulo/Badalona – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

International Women’s Day: Sabinia Tranquilina

Today, on the occasion of the celebration of March 8th, we want to talk about a woman who, despite being the most powerful in the Empire, did not live an easy and peaceful life, as we could imagine for her social status. Sabina Tranquilina (225-244 AD) married Gordian III at the age of 15 and became Empress of Rome from 241 to 244, the year the emperor was assassinated.

We don’t know anything about her life, the year or the place where she was born and died, we don’t know if she had children, or siblings, or who her mother was. The only thing we know of her biography corresponds to the short time she was married to Gordian III and until her tragic death, but her testimony is still alive through the material remains, such as this inscription that dedicated to her the Ordo decuriorum or Senate of Baetulo and that can be seen in the Museum of Badalona. A fragment of history written in stone that has perpetuated the name and life of this woman, in one of the most turbulent times of the Roman Empire.

International Women’s Day. Anonymous women from Badalona that made history

The exhibition Badalona on wheels that can be seen at the Museum until April 25th, is the pretext that allows us to pay a small tribute to all those anonymous women of Badalona who, with their effort, and thanks to the strength of the solidarity networks that established between them, played a key role in our recent history.

In an exhibition in which women have little prominence -the engine was formerly a world of men-, an image allows us to recover the testimony of a whole group, the female one, in one of the periods of greatest urban, economic and social changes that our city has experienced.

International Women’s Day: The Women of Baetulo

Today, in occasion of the celebration of International Women’s Day, we want to remember how women lived in Roman times. We do this from the funerary remains that we have been recovering in Badalona, specifically from a tomb with a tile box, found in 2008 during the construction of the Pompeu Fabra metro station. The skeleton of a 25-year-old girl appeared in this tomb. The funeral paraphernalia and the bony remains that accompanied it allow us to make a sketch of his life and beliefs.