These are several bronze tablets on which a Senatus Consultum and an Imperial epistula were engraved. The Senate’s part deals with the prosecution of Cn. Piso, Tiberius’ close friend and governor of Syria when Germanicus died in strange circumstances. Cn. Piso was found culpable of having framed the killing, but the general feeling was that he acted in Tiberius’ behalf. As in the previous document, this epigraph provides factual confirmation of Tacitus’ narrative. As the death of Germanicus occurred during the same year most people suspected Piso of having poisoned him (although no definite proof was available). The armed attempt of Piso to gain once more control of the province of Syria immediately after the death of Germanicus only aroused more indignation, and Tiberius was forced to order an investigation and a public trial in the Roman Senate for Piso and his wife. Piso committed suicide, though it was rumoured that Tiberius, fearing incriminating disclosures, had put him to death. Tiberius and his mother Livia were able to avoid incrimination of his wife Plancina.
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