This portrait is after an Antique original, thought originally to have been a portrait of the emperor Domition, but transformed into a bust of Nero sometime after Domition's death in 96A.D. (See K. Fittschen and P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, Mainz am Rhein, 1985, I, no. 31, I (Plates), pl.33).