Even as he prepared his adopted son Tiberius for the role of "princeps" and recommended him to the Senate as a worthy successor, Augustus seems to have doubted the propriety of dynastic "imperium"; this, however, was probably his only feasible course. When Augustus died, he was voted a "divus" by the Senate, and his body was cremated in a sumptuous funeral; his soul was said to have ascended to the heavens, to join his adoptive father among the Olympians; his ashes were deposited in the Imperial Mausoleum, which tactfully identified him (and later, his descendants) by his Imperial names, rather than as "divus". After Augustus, the only new cults to Roman officials are those connected to the Imperial household.