Marta bat Boethus מרתא בת בייתוס

When the Romans invested Jerusalem, Marta sent her servant for bread: while he went, the white flour ran out; while he went again, the dark; then the barley. So she went out herself, barefoot—"I shall see whether I find anything"—and died in the street. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai read over her the verse about the most delicate of women whose foot never touched the ground.

Before dying, says the Gemara, she threw all her gold into the street: "what is it to me"—the same gold with which her house, the Boethusians, had once bought the high priesthood itself. In the accounts of the destruction her story stands beside Kamtza and Bar Kamtza—as the second cause of the fall: wealth without bread.