The last statue which emerged from the sea of Baia, was the one of Antonia Minor. Thanks to this last recovery, it was possible to give name and surname to the owner of the Nymphaeum.

The professor B. Andreae, helped by monetary images and a large amount of heads, identified the statue of Antonia Minor, mother of the emperor Claudius. She was represented always in the same way and, thanks to two details, it was possible to discover the identity of the woman: on her hair, under the diadem, she used to wear a round, the hair opens to reveal only the middle of her forehead; the hair are puffed up near the ears, from which they fall, on her temples, two little curls.

Antonia Minor was daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia, and got married with Druso, Augustus' grandson and Tiberius' son. A little before his suicide, Antonia Minor was raised to the rank of Augusta, that is of empress, by her nephew Caligula.

The woman has her head adorned with a precious perforated diadem, she is dressed like a Greek goddess  and has on the palm of her left stretched hand a little winged boy, Eros: god of love.

She was represented as Venus Mother, that is the personification of that Venus who the Gens Julia honoured as the ancestress. As a matter of fact, it was her, after the marriage with Druso, who united the blood of the Jiulii with the one of the Claudii. For her son Claudius and for the descendants of this latter, she was the Venus Mother who assured the continuity of blood with the house of  Augustus. The Gens Julia returned to the mythical founder of the Roman people, Aeneas, and to his son, Julio Ascanio, progenitor of the family.

It was already affirmed that Claudius proposed in the apse of his Nymphaeum in Baia a scene of the Homeric epopee in the moment that Ulysses offers the cup to the Cyclops. The same scene was offered by Tiberius in his villa in Sperlonga and the same theme adopted Nero for his Domus Aurea in Rome. So it is assumable that the mythical progenitor of the Gens Claudia was Ulysses, while his son Telegono, born from the union with the sorceress Circe, was the founder of the family.