The Famous Stilicho Diptych - Actually Depicts Aetius

[Nathan Ross]

I like to think the Stilicho Sarcophagus in Milan is of Aetius... but again, we don't know... it's thought to date to the late 4th century, not the 5th.

Very unlikely to be Aetius, I think - the sarcophagus itself seems to date from c.385, as you say, but it's cobbled together from bits of earlier sarcophagi, some of them could be as early as the 3rd century. The medallion portrait of the man and his wife looks rather mid-4th century to my eyes.

Aside from the Monza diptych, whoever it is, the only other 5th century portrait of a military subject I can think of is this one, of Aspar and Ardaburius, in their magisterial robes: