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The tombstone of Marcellus is known to scholars as CIL X, 6569 which can be found in the Octagonal Court in the Vatican Museums and reads: To Sextus Varius Marcellus procurator centenarius of the water supply, procurator ducenarius of Britain, procurator trecenarius of the private purse, acting as praetorian prefect and praefectus urbi,
Elagabalus was born in 203 or 204, to Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana, who had probably married around the year 200 (and no later than 204). Elagabalus's full birth name was probably (Sextus) Varius Avitus Bassianus, the last name being apparently a cognomen of the Emesene dynasty.
Sextus Varius Marcellus was a Syrian nobleman who married Julia Soaemias, daughter of Septimius Severus' sister. He had a son, Heliogabalus, who became emperor in 218, and held various procuratorships and governorships under Severus and Caracalla.
After P. *Septimius Geta(2)'s murder (at the end of 211), *Caracalla made Marcellus acting praetorian and city prefect. He was then adlected to the senate and served as prefect of the aerarium militare and governor of *Numidia, where he evidently died, without reaching the consulship.
Apr 4, 2023 · This future Roman emperor was born around 204 AD at Emesa in Roman’s province in Syria. Elagabalus’ father was Sextus Varius Marcellus, a high-ranking Roman senator and once close ally of Emperor Caracalla. His mother was Julia Soaemias, a member of the Severan dynasty which also produced emperors such as Septimius Severus and Caracalla.
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Jan 5, 2016 · It is widely acknowledged that he was born in Syria in 203 CE to noblewoman Julia Soaemias and knight Sextus Varius Marcellus, and known during his youth as Varius Avitus Bassianus.
