Hiberus

{{short description|1st century AD Roman freedman who was briefly governor of Egypt}}

{{For|the suffect consul|Marcus Antonius Hiberus}}

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.Cassius Dio, Romaike Historia [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/58*.html#19 58.19.6] 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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{{S-bef| before= Vitrasius Pollio}}

{{S-ttl| title= Prefect of Aegyptus | years=c. 32}}

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Category:1st-century Romans

Category:1st-century Roman governors of Egypt

Category:Emperor's slaves and freedmen

Category:Roman governors of Egypt

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