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Nero Iulius Caesar [?]
This head “velato capite” of a Julio-Claudian Prince, probably, portrays Nero Julius Caesar 16 years old (c. AD 6 – AD 30), Stemma Drusorum N. 17.
He was son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, and brother of the emperor Caligula. By the death of Drusus Minor, the son of Tiberius, in A.D. 23, Nero became the heir to the imperial throne.
In A.D. 29 he was accused of treason along with his mother. Nero was exiled to the island of Pontia, and shortly afterwards was there starved to death. According to some accounts he put an end to his own life, when the executioner appeared before liira with the instruments of death.
Roman marble portrait
1st cent., about A.D. 23
From Ziane, Tunisia
Paris, Department of Coins, Medals and Antiquities
Nero Iulius Caesar [?]
This head “velato capite” of a Julio-Claudian Prince, probably, portrays Nero Julius Caesar 16 years old (c. AD 6 – AD 30), Stemma Drusorum N. 17.
He was son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, and brother of the emperor Caligula. By the death of Drusus Minor, the son of Tiberius, in A.D. 23, Nero became the heir to the imperial throne.
In A.D. 29 he was accused of treason along with his mother. Nero was exiled to the island of Pontia, and shortly afterwards was there starved to death. According to some accounts he put an end to his own life, when the executioner appeared before liira with the instruments of death.
Roman marble portrait
1st cent., about A.D. 23
From Ziane, Tunisia
Paris, Department of Coins, Medals and Antiquities