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Identifying the youthful princes of the Julio-Claudian dynasty is always difficult, even more so in small-scale depictions. As Rose informs (p. xvii in Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period), "Most of the portraits were idealized in an apparent attempt to foster the impression of a uniform dynastic identity, and there has been considerable debate regarding the identification of many of the types."
For related cameo portraits compare two thought to be of Caius Caesar, both in carnelian, nos. C4 and C5 in Megow, Kameen von Augustus bis Alexander Severus. For a sardonyx cameo thought to be Germanicus see no. C18, op. cit.; and for a carnelian cameo thought to be Drusus Major, see no. C11.
For related cameo portraits compare two thought to be of Caius Caesar, both in carnelian, nos. C4 and C5 in Megow, Kameen von Augustus bis Alexander Severus. For a sardonyx cameo thought to be Germanicus see no. C18, op. cit.; and for a carnelian cameo thought to be Drusus Major, see no. C11.