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Denarius 89 BC depicting the torture of Tarpeia Denarius (19-18 BC) depicting the head of Augustus and Tarpeia crushed by the soldiers' shields In Roman mythology, Tarpeia , daughter of Spurius Tarpeius (a Roman commander) was a Roman maiden who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines in exchange for what she thought would be a reward of jewellery. She was instead crushed to death and her body cast from the Tarpeian Rock which now bears her name.
Tarpeia is a crater on the asteroid 4 Vesta located at 69.5°S and 29°E, within the ridged and grooved terrain of Vesta's southern hemisphere. It has a diameter of 41 km. It is irregularly shaped and has a sharp, fresh rim. It contains many small craters less than a kilometer across and its steep slopes shows brilliant layers of minerals.
It was named after Tarpeia, a maiden from Roman mythology, on 27 December 2011.
The gens Tarpeia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome. The family was active until the period of the early Roman Republic. Only one member of the family, Spurius Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus, is mentioned independent of the legendary accounts of Livy.