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Tiberius, Roman Emperor (16 Nov 42 BC - 16 Mar 37 AD)

Second Roman Emperor, who ruled from 14-37 AD. He was known as a great general but also as a dark and sombre man. Full name: Tiberius Claudius Nero (birth to adoption); Tiberius Julius Caesar (adoption to accession); Imperator Tiberius Caesar Augustus (as Emperor).
 Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-6440?rskey=qGCG6H&result=5 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius Relationships: Tiberius was a husband of Vipsania [the Elder] Agrippina (14 BC-33)
Tiberius was a uncle of Caligula (31 Aug 12-24 Jan 41)
Tiberius was a father of Claudius I (01 Aug 10 BC-13 Oct 54 AD)

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 63 B.C.-12 B.C.) was a relative of Tiberius
Vipsania [the Elder] Agrippina (14 BC-33) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Tiberius
Julia Augusti filia (30 Oct 39 BC-14 AD) was a wife of Tiberius
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14) was a relative of Tiberius
Drusus Julius Caesar (14 BC-14 Sep 23 AD) was a son of Tiberius
Gaius Caesar (20 BC-21 Feb 4 AD) was a relative of Tiberius
Lucius Caesar (17 BC-20 Aug 2 AD) was a relative of Tiberius
Julius Caesar Germanicus (24 May 16/15 BCE-10 Oct 19 CE) was a nephew of Tiberius
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (38 BCE-9 BCE) was a brother of Tiberius
Marcus Julius Herod Agrippa I (10 BC-44 AD) was a employed by Tiberius
Drusilla Livia (58 BC-29 AD) was a mother of Tiberius
Strabo (c. 64 BC-after 21 AD) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Tiberius
References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 448 TI. Cæsar Divi Aug. F. Augustus. Caput Tiberij Pontif. Maxim. Muliebris figura sedens cum hasta purâ et Lauriramo. Ar. Tiberius. The head of Tiberius; seated female figure with an unused spear and a laurel branch.
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) Tiberius. The head of Tiberius; seated female figure with an unused spear and a laurel branch.
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) Tiberius. Seated figure with a spear in the right hand.
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 245 Lapis Serpentinus spissius virens forma quadrata. Ophites etiam dictus. Marmor Lacædemoniũm, Augustũ et Tiberiũetiam dictum. Charleton sed Vid Worm. p: 43. Square, rather dark green serpentine; also known as ophites. Lacaedemonian marble, also called Augustan and Tiberian [according to] Charleton, but see Worm 1655, p. 43.
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d)
Tiberius"> Coins of Tiberius Cæsar.
No.78 Head of Tiberius. TI CAESAR AVG F IMPERAT V. Reverse S. C. PONTIFEX TRIBVN POTESTATE XII. Bargrave 7 : 2¼
No.79 Head of Livia Drusilla. SALVS AVGVSTA. Reverse. S. C TI CASAR DIVI AVG F AVG PM. TR POT. XXIIII. Bargrave 8 : 1.
No. 80 Head of Tiberius. Occo says. .... TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST .... Reverse a winged Caduceus betwixt the Letters S.C. PONTIF MAXIM. TRIBVN POTEST XXXVI. Bargrave pw . gr 7 : 3
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

18. Some Pieces delineating singular inhumanities in Tortures. The Scaphismus of the Persians. The living truncation of the Turks. The hanging Sport at the Feasts of the Thracians. The exact method of flaying men alive, beginning between the Shoulders, according to the description of Thomas Minadoi, in his Persian War. Together with the studied tortures of the French Traitours at Pappa inHun-205Tract XIII. Bibliotheca Abscondita Hungaria: as also the wild and enormous torment invented by Tiberius, designed according unto the description of Suetonius. Excogitaverunt inter genera cruciatûs, ut largâ meri potione per fallaciam oneratos repentè veretris deligatis fidicularum simul urinæque tormento distenderet.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The said Sepulchral Monument was happily rescued by Dr. Bryan Fairfax, from the brutish Workmen who had broke it in the Middle, and were going to make use of it for two Throughs, as they call them, to bind the Wall; but by that worthy Gentleman's Direction it was walled upright, with the Inscription and Effigies to the Front, and is since removed to the Gardens of Sir Hen. Goodrick at Ribston. This Brick had been several Times made use of, with broken Stones and Brick-bats, by Mr. Smith in making Moulds for casting Bells. Upon my Enquiry after Inscriptions in that ancient City, he recollected himself that he had seen some old Letters, but thought the Brick was lost, though upon Search we found the Piece which is inscribed, LEG. I X. VIC. This is also an Argument of the Peace these Parts enjoyed at that Time, which I take to be the later End of Severus's Reign, making Bricks, casting up High-ways, &c. being the usual Employment of Soldiers at such Vacancies. Sir Hen. Savile was of Opinion, that this Nona Hispaniensis in Britannia, was one of those established by Tiberius, Caius, or Claudius, or peradventure in the later End of Augustus; but however, that it was certainly here in Nero's Reign, and that Pet. Cerealis was then Lieutenant thereof, is indisputably evident from Tacitus, (Lib. 14. cap. 10.) where he gives a lamentable Account of the Slaughter of Seventy thousand Citizens, and Confederates, by the enraged Boadicea, in which Number was the Foot of this 9th Legion, Cerealis with the Horse hardly escaping.
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 10 Julius 3, Agrippa 1, Augustus 5, Tiberius 2, Drusus 2, Germanicus 1, Agrippina 1, Caligula 1, and 2 more coins, A N° 84, N° 84, 85, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106, in the Ducatus, p. 286, 287 18
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 34 Julius Cæsar 4, Augustus 5, Tiberius 1, Caligula 1, Claudius 3, Nero 5, Galba 4, Otho 1, vide N° 80, 81, 82, 83., 88, 89, 90, 91, 92., 99., 111., 118, 119, 120., 122, 123, 124., 131., 134., 136, 137, 138., 141 and 142 25
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 100 A Gold Denarius of Tiberius, No. 98
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 105 Augustus, Tiberius, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Ælius, Antonius, Faustina, Verus, Caracalla, and Julia Pia 25
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) Tiberius.
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) Tiberius. 1. 2.