Tiberius Julius Alexander (prefect of Egypt in AD 69)

Mummy portrait of a man from Roman Egypt (late 1st century AD): wax tempera on wood, Altes Museum, Berlin. An image of the period; no portrait of this person survives.

Josephus writes that he was the son of the alabarch Alexander, one of the most distinguished Jews of Alexandria, and that he abandoned the religion of his fathers. He was procurator of Judaea, then prefect of Egypt. On July 1, AD 69, he administered the legions’ oath of allegiance to Vespasian in Alexandria; the new emperor counted that day as the start of his reign. Josephus also reports that his brother was the first husband of Queen Berenice.

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