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Togatus of Pompelo is a togatus, a Roman bronze sculpture, with an established dating of the mid-second century, found in the street of NavarrerÃa in Pamplona (Spain), the Roman Pompaelo, during excavations there carried out in 1895 and which was found its whereabouts are unknown until 2015, when it was located in a private of United States collection where it was considered to come from Gaul. It is the second important bronze robe preserved in Spain, although it was discovered first. In 1982, in a farmhouse in Granada, the Togatus of Periate was discovered, also by chance, which gains in excellence by preserving the usual interchangeable pieces of the head and left hand. This piece is kept in the Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Granada. Thirteen examples of bronze togados are preserved throughout the world, of which five were found in Pompeii and Herculaneum. For this reason, "it represents one of the most remarkable large bronzes known in Spain, and in its genre, as a togado sculpture." , is one of the most important pieces of those that appeared in the peninsula."
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