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Lady of Cao

The Lady of Cao is a nickname given to a female Moche mummy discovered in 2005 at the El Brujo archeological site about 45 km north of Trujillo in Peru’s La Libertad Region.

Addagoppe of Harran

Addagoppe of Harran was an Assyrian priestess of the moon god Sîn in the northern Assyrian city of Harran, and the mother of King Nabonidus (ruled 556–39 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild was a British writer and needleworker who wrote about religion and needlework, and frequently worked with Blanche Catherine Saward.
In 1882 she and Blanche Saward had their Dictionary of Needlework published. The work was available in six volumes and its full title was The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described. Their encyclopedia attempted to describe all aspects of needlework, with 800 woodcut illustrations and more than 528 pages of alphabetical entries. The section on embroidery alone was 24 pages long. This work was aimed at the fashion for needlework and it competed with Thérèse de Dillmont’s Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework published in 1884 and Weldon’s Practical Needlework which was published in monthly parts from 1886.
Caulfeild also had a book of poetry published in 1870, and in 1887 published The Lives of the Apostles, their contemporaries and successors.

Luisa Roldán

Luisa Ignacia Roldán was a Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era, and the first woman sculptor documented in Spain. She is recognized by the Hispanic Society Museum as “one of the few women artist to have maintained a studio outside the convents in Golden Age Spain”. Like many other prominent female artists, she was trained by her father, with whom she collaborated. She combined a specialty in small polychrome terracotta figures – unique for its time – and carved wood reliefs. She struck out on her own in 1671, when she married against her parents’ wishes, and established an independent workshop with her husband. Around 1686, she moved to Cádiz to complete a cathedral commission, then relocated to Madrid in 1688 and boldly petitioned the king for the position of court sculptor (“Escultor de Cámara). The petition was granted in 1692 and she held the post until her death twelve years later. Like many artists of her time she died poor, signing a declaration of poverty shortly before her death. On the day she died, Roldan received the title of “Academician Merit” from Rome’s Academy of Saint Luke in Rome.
Her works are distinctive, possessing “clearly delineated profiles, thick locks of hair, billowing draperies, and mystical faces with delicate eyes, knitting brows, rosy cheeks, and slightly parted lips.” Roldán was a prolific sculptor. Much of her work was religious sculpture for churches, and she also made small terracotta works in the forms of religous scenes, human forms and animals that were popular with the petty bourgeoisie and could be used for personal.

Pulcheria

Aelia Pulcheria ruled as regent of the Eastern Roman Empire during the minority of her brother Theodosius II and then empress in her own right from July 450 to her death in 453. In 414, the 15-year old Pulcheria became the chief guardian of her younger brother Theodosius II and was also proclaimed “augusta” (empress). Pulcheria had significant, though changing, influence and political power during her brother’s reign. When Theodosius II died on 26 July 450, she regained the throne. Pulcheria married Marcian on 25 November 450, while maintaining her vow of virginity. She died three years later, in July 453.
Pulcheria greatly influenced the Christian Church and its theological development by guiding two of the most important ecumenical councils in ecclesiastical history, Ephesus and Chalcedon, in which the Church ruled on christological issues. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church later recognized her as a saint.

Themistoclea

Themistoclea was a priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi; the priestesses were mentors and tutors to many ancient Greek philosophers.
Themistoclea was Pythagoras’ teacher, teaching him moral doctrines, according to Diogenes Laërtius’s 3rd-century biography of Pythagoras in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.
Porphyry (233–305 CE) calls her Aristoclea (Aristokleia), although he is presumed to be talking about the same person. He states “(Pythagoras) taught much else, which he claimed to have learned from Aristoclea at Delphi.”

Pope Joan

Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned as pope from 855 to 857. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 1200s and subsequently spread throughout Europe.