Talk:Sextus Varius Marcellus

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I tried to put this into complete sentences, and failed miserably. Who is this guy? Why is he important? Who cares about him? Tuf-Kat


 * @Tuf-Kat this guy is the father of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus, how is he not important? WeWuzPhoenicians (talk) 01:05, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

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The writer of this article was sloppy. It says that SVM, its subject, dedicated of an inscription to Bel in Vasio, Galia, and cites a reference to a book on Bel:



But when one actually looks up the reference, one finds (p 307) that it has cited the wrong page (306), although the right paragraph, and that its text ROUNDLY contradicts the assertion, now no longer accepted, that this refers to SVM.

< Finally Bel of Apamea is also found in Vasio (Vaison), located in the south of Gallia, in a bilingual Greek-Latin inscription on an altar. The text says that the altar was dedicated by someone called Sextus in honour of Bel to remember the oracles given to him in Apamea. Originally this Sextus was identified with Sextus Varius Marcellus from Apamea, the father of the later Emperor Elagabal. This explanation is not accepted any more because a first name is not sufficient for this identification (BAL TY, 1981: 8-10). >

This is yet another example of the RANK carelessness attending most of what is written on any subject relating to "Elagabalus".

More useful would have been to cite under relevant epigraphy the fistula naming SVM as procurator of the aqueducts:

CIL XV 7326 fistula concordat cum CIL X 6569 SVM procuatorem aquaeductibus nominans. CIL XV 7326 anno AVC 951 = AD 198 a Halfmann H. ‘Zwei syrische Verwandte des severischen Kaiserhauses’ Chiron 12, 1982: 212-235 habetur. Hic annus plane ante Sexti Varii Marcelli filii ‘Elagabali’ ortum est.

And the Acta of the Secular Games naming Julia Soaemias Bassiana (ISB) as his wife.

CIL VI 32329. ISB prima inter matronas adstantes ‘uxor SVM’ nominata est.

Saxolatus Pratensis Saxolatus Pratensis (talk) 11:29, 5 January 2022 (UTC)