Josephus, an Old Church Slavonic translation of the Jewish historian Josephus with many legendary additions, Jesus heals Pilate's dying wife. According to later Western Christian legend, influenced by her name in Pseudo-Dexter, Claudia Procula was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the illegitimate daughter of Caesar Augustus's daughter Julia the Elder. Julia had been married to Tiberius, but he divorced and exiled her due to her immoderate lifestyle. While in exile, Julia gave birth to Claudia Procula, who was legitimized by Tiberius after Julia's death. Christian art and plays Visual art The earliest depictions of Procula occur as disembodied heads near Pilate, depicting her warning him of her dream. The earliest surviving image comes from Fulda in the Ottonian period and dates to c. 970–980. The earliest full-body depictions of Procula occur in the eleventh century. She typically stands behind him, sometimes whispering in his ear, while other representations of Matthew's version of the scene in Pilate's court may depict an intermediary delivering the message of Pilate's wife to her husband. Although Procula is venerated as a saint in Eastern Christianity, very few images of her come from there. She is frequently depicted in German-speaking Europe. Mystery plays Pilate's wife is a major character in the 30th York Mystery Play (Tapiters' and Couchers' Play), where she introduces herself as "Dame Precious Percula". Her dream is dictated by the Devil. He first soliloquises to the effect that if Jesus dies, he, the Devil, will lose control of men's souls. He then tells the sleeping Percula that Jesus is innocent, and that if he is condemned, she and Pilate will lose their privileged position. She wakes and sends a message to Pilate, but Annas and Caiaphas succeed in convincing him that her dream was inspired by Jesus' witchcraft. Modern reception Modern literature Pilate's wife has appeared in a number of poems, novels, and plays in the modern period. Aemilia Lanyer's volume of poems Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) contains a poem of the same title, in which Pilate's wife is the main speaker. She makes reference to the Fall of Adam and Eve, and argues that Pilate's sin in killing Christ abrogates the curse on Eve, since Pilate sinned by not listening to his wife (unlike Adam, who sinned by hearkening to the voice of Eve). In the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's Christian epic The Messiah (published in installments from 1748