My new observations establish his portrait type, based on numismatic evidence and especially on two little-known sculptural portraits representing him as a child wearing the corona civica. Even though the epigraphic record proves that many portraits of Britannicus were set up, there has been no agreement about the identification of any of his images. Reevaluated too are por- traits-in-the-round that have long been attributed to the young Nero but which i show rep- resent instead Britannicus. Certain of these reliefs also offer insight into the likely reason for the creation of one of Claudius’ portrait types that influenced the hairstyles of his natural son Britannicus and his adopted son Nero. This article reconsiders the identification of several imperial personages and personifications from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion at Aphrodisias.
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