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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0411. 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: CE 198-210 (reign)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Pac̣[cia]e M[a]rcianae
quondam [u]xoris
domini n[o]str[i]
Imp(eratoris) [Caesa]ris
5 L(uci) Sept[imi Seuer]i
Pii Pe[rtinacis Aug(usti)]
Arab(ici) Adiabenici
Parthici max(imi)
Curiae tres Plotina
10et Neruia et Mati-
dia posuerunt

Diplomatic

PA.[...]EM[.]RCIANAE
QUONDAM[.]XORIS
DOMININ[.]STR[.]
IMP[.....]RIS
5LSEPT[........]I
PIIPE[............]
ARABADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAX
CURIAETRESPLOTINA
10ETNERUIAETMATI
DIAPOSUERUNT

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

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 (scil. this) up.

Commentary

Paccia Marciana: PIR P 0012, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/9986

Line 8. Parthicus maximus from 198.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1950 72, whence AE 1950.160; IRT, 1952, 411, whence IRT, 2009, 411, whence EDH 021964; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 269 Lastre)


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