Tuccia

thumb|500x500px|Tuccia, in a painting by Francesco Granacci thumb|Hector Leroux, La Vestale Tuccia, 1874. thumb|'The Vestal' by Joshua Reynolds, showing Tuccia.

Tuccia (3rd-century BC), was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin. It's supposed by her nomen that she belonged to the gens Tuccia. She is known for an incident in which her chastity was questioned by a spurious accusation. The punishment for vestal virgins who lost their chastity was immurement. In Tuccia's case, to save her reputation and life, she carried water from the Tiber to the Temple of Vesta in a flat perforated basket without the water falling to the ground through the sieve.