Monumentum Ancȳrānum

Monumentum Ancȳrānum, inscription in Latin (with Greek translation) found in 1555 at Ancyra (Angora, modern Ankara) in Galatia, engraved on the walls of the temple of Rome and Augustus. It contains the text of one of the four documents written by the emperor Augustus and read in the senate after his death, a ‘record of his enterprises’, index rerum a se gestarum, which, in accordance with his wish, was then engraved on bronze tablets and placed outside his mausoleum. The text is not preserved on manuscript, nor has the original inscription survived, but copies were set up in the provinces, of which this is one. Fragments of two other copies have been found at Apollonia and at Antioch, both in Pisidia.