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D.S.M. I, Masties, dux for sixtyseven years, imperator for ten years, ☩ , I never betrayed, nor broke the faith, neither with the Romans, nor with the Moors and I obeyed in war as in peace, and for that, by reason for my conduct, God gave his kindness to me. I, Vartaia, erected with my brothers this
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It appears to be far more likely, that the title Dux simply continued to be used for the hereditary leaders of Berber tribes during the Vandal period. This view is supported by the case of
Masties himself. Given that he held the title for 67 years, he must have assumed it at a relatively young age.
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Masties made a clear appeal to
Christians, referencing that “God gave his kindness to me” and using the cross as a symbol. He capitalized on the indignation felt by Christians in Aurès, providing an alternative in Roman and Christian terms for the population. His claims of divine favor aligned with
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In 484 AD, the Vandal king
Huneric initiated a persecution against Nicene Christians within his kingdom. Concurrently, according to Procopius, the Aurès region broke with Vandal rule. Prompted by this persecution, Masties is believed to have adopted the title "imperator," moving towards autonomy in
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argues that the villages, churches, and countryside of the Aurès, outside Vandal control, offered a productive rural powerbase from which
Masties had drawn the necessary means for an emergent Romano- Berber identity that cemented his authority and provided to the people of the region “a sense of
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in the detailed evaluation of Greg Fisher and
Alexander Drost, Masties rise to power can be attributed to a strong military personality, offering a link to Roman power and also tolerance to those escaping Vandal persecution, quoted as saying "Times and circumstances might have changed, but the
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Since the days of Juba and
Massinissa ,centuries of contacts between Romans and Berbers had allowed Masties to assume Roman military leadership and titles, The Berber elite was thus more acceptable than their contemporary Arab counterparts notes Greg Fisher and Alexander Drost.
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The majority of the text of the inscription is presented as self-eulogy, narrated by
Masties himself. In the penultimate line, however, while the text remains in the first-person, the speaker changes, allowing the donor of the inscription, Vartaia, to note his own involvement.
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Masties’ emphasis on faith (fides) in the inscription was well noted as a potential push-back against the contemporary literature stereotype of Moors being faithless (infidus), however the inscription opening with the phrase
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Masties. Carcopino suggested that Masties might have been appointed as Dux, in the sense of the Roman military command, by
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desirability and requirement of a hybrid appearance clearly had not". This evaluation is convincingly backed by the number of
African clerics (4,966) arriving at
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