Augustus's will, read to the Senate by the Vestal Virgins, barred his daughter and granddaughter from his tomb

Augustus died at Nola on 19 August AD 14. About 16 months earlier he had written his will in two notebooks. The Vestal Virgins, who held it, brought it to the Senate with three sealed rolls. It made Tiberius heir to two-thirds and his wife Livia to one-third, both to take his name. Tacitus says Livia was adopted into the Julian family as Augusta. He left 40 million sesterces to the Roman people, 3.5 million to the tribes, 1,000 to each praetorian, 500 to each city soldier and 300 to each legionary. One roll held his funeral orders, one the account of his achievements to be cut on bronze at his Mausoleum, and one the state of the army and treasury. He wrote that he had received about 1,400 million sesterces from friends' wills in 20 years, spent most of it on the state, and expected his heirs to get no more than 150 million. He had banished his daughter Julia and granddaughter Julia for adultery and disowned his adopted grandson Agrippa Postumus. The will ordered that neither Julia be placed in his Mausoleum. Tacitus says the first crime of the new reign was the killing of Agrippa Postumus by a centurion, and Tiberius said he had given no order. The elder Julia died at Rhegium the same year. Tacitus says Tiberius left her to perish of destitution. The achievements roll survives as the Res Gestae, best preserved on a temple wall in Ankara^†.