Graham, Alexander: Roman Africa: an outline of the history of the Roman occupation of North Africa ; based chiefly upon inscriptions and monumental remains in that country (London [u.a.], 1902)

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Further interest is attached to this inscription, as it records
the name of Rufus Passienus, who achieved great success in the
subjugation of Numidia.

Tiberius also is represented in the form of a dedication by
C. Vibius Marsus, who was proconsul for the third time.1 The
slab bearing the inscription was discovered by M. Tissot on a
bridge over the river Badja near Vicus Augusti. The date
would be A.D. 29-30.

TI • CAESAR • DIVI
AVG • F • AVGVSTVS
PONTIF • MAX • TRIB
POTEST • XXXI • COS 1111
DEDIT

C • VIBIVS ■ MARSVS • PRO
COS • III • DEDIC

Another dedication to this Emperor is on a milliarium at
Tacape (Gabes) on the road to Capsa, the date, A.D. 14, being
the year of his accession on the death of Augustus.2

IMP CAES AVG
TIF AVGVSTVS TRI

POT.....XVI

L ASPRENAS COS
PROCOS VII VIR
EPVLONVM VIAM
EX CASTR HIBER
NIS TACAPES MVNI
ENDAM CVRAVIT
LEG III AVG
CIX.......

A similar one has been brought to light on the same highway,
some fifty miles beyond Gabes. The two dedications to the
Emperor Claudius have no special interest, and the name of
Nerva appears only on one inscription. Of the other Cassars, the
names of Titus and Vespasian may be traced on a few much-
worn milliaria, and a dedication to the latter by a flamen perpetuus
of Chusira, in the province of Byzacene, may still be read on the
base of an altar, bearing the date A.D. 70-71.

1 C. I. L. No. 14386.

2 C. I. L. No. 10018, deciphered by Temple and Wilmanns. Sir Grenville
Temple, Excursions in the Mediterranean, London, 1835, vii. p. 321.