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Hiberius (fl. 1st century AD) was an imperial freedman who assumed the duties of praefectus or governor of Roman Egypt for a few months in AD 32, from the premature death of Vitrasius Pollio to the arrival from Rome of Aulus Avilius Flaccus. [1] He may have been a slave to Antonia Minor, wife of Drusus.

Besides Hiberus, only one other freedman served as governor of Egypt, Marcus Aurelius Epagathus.

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References

  1. Cassius Dio, Romaike Historia 58.19.6
Political offices
Preceded by
Vitrasius Pollio
Prefect of Aegyptus
c. 32
Succeeded by
Aulus Avilius Flaccus