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Twelve Emperors by Suetonius

Augustus, Chapter 50: His seal.
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In sealing letters, patent rescripts, or epistles, he [Note 1] at first used the figure of a Sphinx, afterwards the head of Alexander the Great, and at last his own, engraved by the hand of Dioscorides; which practice was retained by the succeeding emperors. He was extremely precise in dating his letters, putting down exactly the time of the day or night at which they were dispatched.

Note 1: he = Augustus