Editing Julia Pacata (section)

{{short description|1st century AD Gaulish noblewoman}}'''Julia Pacata''' '''Indiana''' was the daughter of [[Julius Indus]], a 1st-century nobleman of the [[Gaul]]ish [[Treveri]] who helped put down a Gaulish rebellion in 21 and led an [[auxiliaries (Roman military)|auxiliary]] [[cavalry]] unit in the [[Roman army]], the [[Ala Gallorum Indiana]]. She married [[Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus]], the [[Procurator (Roman)|procurator]] of [[Roman Britain]] from 61 to his death in 65. She buried him in [[London]], and his reconstructed tombstone, which was re-used in the [[medieval]] wall of London, is now in the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collingridge |first=Vanessa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfrl5IWtJY4C |title=Boudica |date=2012-09-30 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4464-4501-3 |pages=284 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Watts |first=Dorothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sf-BAgAAQBAJ |title=Boudicca's Heirs: Women in Early Britain |date=2005-10-09 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-46309-1 |pages=35–36 |language=en}}</ref> There is a copy in the Museum of London Collection which was on display until the Museum closed in 2022, and there is a poor quality copy of the inscription near the site of excavation which is just to the East of Tower Hill Underground Station by the Roman City Wall.

Presuming Julia Pacata lived in London with her husband, she is, apart from [[Boudica]] and [[Cartimandua]], the first securely dated and named women in Roman Britain.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bédoyère |first=Guy de la |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDHCCAAAQBAJ |title=The Real Lives of Roman Britain |date=2015-07-28 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21403-1 |pages=44–45 |language=en}}</ref>