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) 
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
PA·[····]EM[··]RCIANAE
QVONDAM[··]XORIS
DOMININ[··]STR[··]
IMP[······]RIS
5LSEPT[··········]I
PIIPE[·············]
ARABADIABENICI
PARTHICIMAX
CVRIAETRESPLOTINA
10ETNERVIAETMATI
DIAPOSVERVNT
<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>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Caesa
</supplied>
ris
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
uci
</ex>
</expan>
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>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
</supplied>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Arab
</abbr>
<ex>
ici
</ex>
</expan>
Adiabenici
<lb n="8" />
Parthici
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imi
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="9" />
Curiae
tres
Plotina
<lb n="10" />
et
Neruia
et
Mati
<lb n="11" type="worddiv" />
dia
posuerunt
</ab>

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.

Photographs:

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

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