The first one of the two twin bronze busts of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claudius_II&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Claudius II (page does not exist)">Claudius II</a> "the Gothic" (268/269 d.C.). The gilded bronze portraits, five of Roman emperors and one of an empress, were hidden beneath the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tempio_capitolino_a_Brescia" class="mw-redirect" title="Tempio capitolino a Brescia">Capitoline temple in Brescia</a>, together with other bronze objects, to prevent the consequences of a possible sack of the town in the 4th or 5th century, and unearthed only in 1826. They are now exhibited in the archaeological <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Museo_di_Santa_Giulia_a_Brescia" class="mw-redirect" title="Museo di Santa Giulia a Brescia">Santa Giulia Museum, in Brescia</a>, Italy.
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