Career
Bassianus was a high priest for the Temple of the Sun, which was adored in a shape of a black stone. The Aramaean Sun God in Aramaic is El-Gebal. The Royal Family was a part of the local Syrian Aramaean aristocracy and was a client kingdom of the Roman Empire.
The beginning of his priesthood is unknown but by 187, he was a high priest at Emesa.
Bassianus" wife is unknown. Severus and Domna, married not so long after.
Domna bore Severus two sons, Lucius Septimius Bassianus (Caracalla, 4 April 188-8 April 217) and Publius Septimius Geta (7 March 189-19 December 211). Bassianus is a possible descendant of princess Drusilla of Mauretania and could be an ancestor to Syrian Queen Zenobia of Palmyra.