Abstract:

The following paper presents a serie of pieces of Roman sculpture in white marblefrom Carrara attested during summer of 2013 in reused and amortization context right in theforum of the Roman town of Los Bañales (Uncastillo, Zaragoza). Between the pieces presented hereparticular attention is paid to the central part of a great quality decorated breastplate with images ofspolia hostiumand to the legs and feet of the sculpture including also other small parts –shoulder,hand and pieces of the pterykesand of the paludamentum– of that one, here considered as part of anunique imperial thoracatusprobably from Domitian times according to some parallels and some for-mal details of the statue itself. That sculpture is here linked with the history of this very singular Flavian municipality of the Caesaraugustan conventuspresenting, also, a hypothesis about the pri-mary position of the monument, in one of the scholaeof the occidental porticus in the forum ofLos Bañales.