ANCYRANUM, MONUMENTUM, the tablets recording the deeds of Augustus, found on the walls of a temple at Ancyra (Angora). These tablets were copies of the index rerum a se ges tarum (record of his deeds) set up by the emperor in Rome. The first section deals with the "deeds," largely military, between 44 and 28 B.C.; the second with domestic matters, such as honorific titles and constitutional changes; the third with finance ; and the fourth with general political and diplomatic matters. It is one of our most important historical sources for this period.
See the editions by Th. Mommsen (1883) and E. G. Hardy (1923).