Marcus Antonius Hiberus was a

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, who was active during the reign of

Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...

. He was consul ''ordinarius'' for the year 133 with

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as his colleague. He is known entirely from inscriptions. Besides his consulship, only one office has been attested for Hiberus: his governorship of the imperial province of

Moesia Inferior Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...

, which is attested by a bilingual inscription recording a letter of

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that mentions him as a governor of that province. The precise date he governed Moesia Inferior is unclear.

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dates it to the last years of Hadrian or first years of

Antoninus Pius Antoninus Pius (Latin: ''Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius''; 19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. Born into a senatoria ...

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argues that he was appointed governor around 136, in the last years of Hadrian's reign, and continued into Antoninus Pius' reign to around 139, based on a restoration of a

military diploma A Roman military diploma was a document inscribed in bronze certifying that the holder was honourably discharged from the Roman armed forces and/or had received the grant of Roman citizenship from the emperor as reward for service. The diploma ...

dated 28 February 138. Meanwhile, Margaret Roxan and Paul Holder, in publishing a second military diploma, favor the first years of Antoninus Pius' reign, namely from around 138 to about 141.Roxan and Holder
''Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'', Supplement, No. 82. Roman Military Diplomas IV
(2003). (RMD IV 265) This matter is complicated by the fact that one Julius Crassus is also attested as governor of Moesia Inferior around this same time.

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