The statue of Germanicus in Luni marble belongs to the sculptural cycle found in the eighteenth century in the Basilica of Veleia (PC). The subject is the only one represented in military dress, but the portrait head (perhaps to be identified with Nerva) is not pertinent and was already replaced in antiquity.

To identify the character to whom it was originally dedicated, the symbols represented on the armor can perhaps help us, in particular the animals represented on the fringes. The elephant, lion and capricorn were in fact the symbols of some legions stationed on the Rhine border, in Germany, which in 14 AD rebelled against Rome but were then pacified by Germanicus and led in a series of victorious expeditions beyond the Rhine, for which he was granted the triumph in AD 17.

Germanicus, valiant commander and designated successor to the imperial throne (but who died prematurely in 19 AD), would thus be dutifully honored in Veleia alongside the figures of Augustus, Livia (his paternal grandmother), his father Drusus Major, his uncle Tiberius and his cousin Drusus Minor.