411. Posthumous dedication to Paccia Marciana
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.50 x h: 0.90 x d: 0.60) of brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w: 0.347 x h: 0.68).
- Letters:
- Rustic capitals: 0.045-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-210 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia, Roma (Ministero dell'Africa Italiana), vol. I, 1950 I:72; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.) 1950:160. 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"
/>
Pa
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
c
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
cia
</supplied>
e
M
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
rcianae
<lb
n="2"
/>
quondam
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
u
</supplied>
xoris
<lb
n="3"
/>
domini
n
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
o
</supplied>
str
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
i
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Caesa
</supplied>
ris
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uci
</ex>
Sept
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
imi
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Seuer
</supplied>
i
<lb
n="6"
/>
Pii
Pe
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
rtinacis
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ici
</ex>
Adiabenici
<lb
n="8"
/>
Parthici
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imi
</ex>
<lb
n="9"
/>
Curiae
tres
Plotina
<lb
n="10"
/>
et
Neruia
et
Mati
<lb
n="11"
type="worddiv"
/>
dia
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 three curiae, Plotina, Nervia and Matidia, set (this) up.
Commentary:
l. 1. Paccia Marciana is attested in PIR(1) P 12; also in 410.
l. 8. Parthicus maximus from 198.
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