410. Posthumous dedication to Paccia Marciana
- Description:
- Moulded base (w: 0.92 x h: 1.61 x d: 0.44) of cream marble ; uniform with 415.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.50 x h: 0.56).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: av. 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-210 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in the Temple of Liber Pater.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Bersanetti, Athenaeum (Studi periodici di Letteratura e Storia dell'Antichità), Pavia XXIV:33 ff.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1947:50; Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:71. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Pacciae
Marcianae
<lb
n="2"
/>
quondam
uxoris
domini
<lb
n="3"
/>
nostri
Imperatoris
Caesaris
<lb
n="4"
/>
Luci
Septimi
Seueri
Pii
Perti
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
nacis
Augusti
Arabici
<lb
n="6"
/>
Adiabenici
Parthici
<lb
n="7"
/>
maximi
<lb
n="8"
/>
Lepcitani
Septimiani
<lb
n="9"
/>
publice
ex
uoto
<lb
n="10"
/>
posuerunt
Translation:
To Paccia Marciana, former wife of our lord Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, the Lepcitanians publicly set this up in accordance with a vow.
Commentary:
l. 1. Paccia Marciana is attested in PIR(1) P 12; also in 411
l. 7. Parthicus Maximus from 198.
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