Current research, still underway and for a variety of reasons more relisble, dates the group to the earlier period of Caesar (between 50 and 30 BC). According to this theory the statues may well represent the members of a high-ranking, noble family, possibly in some way connected to the Marche area; possible identities, according to researchers, range from the glorious and very wealthy stock of Dominizi Enobarbi and the relationship throug adoption between Marco Satrio, senator and probable patron of Sentinum, and Lucio Minucio Basilo, Juliul Caesar's lieutenant and future assassin.