She was the daughter of the Roman Senator Pomponius Bassus and the wealthy heiress Annia Aurelia Faustina, while her brother was the Roman Senator Pomponius Bassus. The paternal great, grandparents of her mother were the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger. Through her mother, Pomponia Ummidia was a descendant of the former ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire.
She lived in the period the Crisis of the Third Century in the Roman Empire. Pomponia Ummidia came from a distinguished senatorial family. She was of Italian Roman and Pontian Greek ancestry.
Her cognomen Ummidia reveals that she was a distant relative to the Ummidia (gens).
Her mother named her this cognomen and names her in honor of three late relatives from the gens, who were:
Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Annianus Verus, a Roman Senator who served as a suffect consul in 146 who married Marcus Aurelius’ sister, Annia Cornificia Faustina
Ummidia Cornificia Faustina, the daughter of Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Annianus Verus and Annia Cornificia Faustina. She was the niece of Marcus Aurelius and the maternal grandmother of Annia Aurelia Faustina
These estates were very large properties and existed from the time of the Roman Dictator of the Roman Republic, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (c 138 British Columbia-78 British Columbia).
When her father died in 221, her mother was briefly married to the Roman Emperor Elagabalus. When Annia Aurelia Faustina died, Pomponia Ummidia inherited her mother’s estate and the fortune of her mother.
By this means, she became a very wealthy heiress.
These inscriptions reveal that Pomponia Ummidia married a Greek Politician called Flavius Antiochianus. Flavius Antiochianus was an active politician in the reigns of the four above mentioned Roman Emperors. She spent her time between Rome and Pisidia.
According to the inscriptions, Pomponia Ummidia appeares to have been a virtuous person in character.
lieutenant is unknown whether Pomponia Ummidia bore any of Flavius Antiochianus" children.
