Editing Sextus Varius Marcellus (section)

==Epigraphic evidence==
Inscriptional evidence has survived on Marcellus. After his death in c. 215, his wife [[Julia Soaemias]] Bassiana and their two sons, dedicated to him a tombstone which was found in [[Velletri]], not far from Rome.<ref name=livius/> The tombstone has two preserved bilingual inscriptions in Latin and [[Greek language|Greek]], which were first published at Rome in 1765.<ref name=livius/> The inscriptions reveal his political career, his various titles, designations and distinctions he received.<ref name=livius/> The tombstone of Marcellus is known to scholars as {{CIL|10|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,
:senator, prefect of the military treasury, commander of the Third legion Augusta, 
:governor of Numidia,
:has Julia Soaemias Bassiana, daughter of Gaius, with her children, 
:[dedicated this] to her husband and dearest father.

Marcellus was known in dedicating an inscription to [[Bel (mythology)|Bel]] in [[Vaison-la-Romaine|Vasio (Vaison)]] in [[Gaul]].<ref name=Boiv-307>Boiy, ''Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon'', p. 307</ref> The bilingual inscription which is in Greek and Latin on an altar, dedicated by him is honoring Bel in remembrance of the oracles given to him in Apamea.<ref name=Boiv-307/>