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In Rome, from the testimonies of authors, we know many female physicians who also wrote treatises; this is the case of Elephantis, Lais, Olympias of Thebes, Antiochis and Metrodora. Among the women who wrote about gynaecology and obstetrics, the texts of Cleopatra and Aspasia were the most important until the work of Trocta in the 11th century.

Epigraphic testimonies also speak of Primilla, Empiria, Venuleya Sosis, who appear as medici; Salustia Ateneis, as obstetrix; Naevia Clara, as medicaphilologa, and Aurelia Alexandra Zózima, "for her medical knowledge".

Funerary inscriptions show Metilia Donata in Lugdunum, Asyllia Polla in Carthago, Naevia Clara in Rome, Scantia Redempta in Capua and Julia Saturnina in Emerita Augusta.

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Researching and reflecting on the National Museum of Roman Art (MNAR) in Spain. Learning about Julia Saturnina and other two women through the inscriptions that belong to the museum's collections.

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