Masties

Masties
Dux - Imperator
Masties inscription found in Arris
Reign484 - 494?
SuccessorIaudas
ReligionChristian

Masties (reigned c. 484–494?) was the Dux and later self proclaimed emperor of the Kingdom of the Aures, a Romano-Berber polity in the former Roman province of Numidia.[1]

Masties is known from an undated Latin epitaph from his presumed capital Arris in Aurès, found in 1941 by Morizot and published in detail by Carcopino in 1944.

Masties was first made dux in around 426 and died in 494, presumably in his eighties, as has been recently suggested. [2]

  1. ^ John Robert Martindale 1980
  2. ^ Andy Merrills and Richard Miles (2010). The Vandals. p. 127.