  A toroidal dipole represents an often overlooked electromagnetic excitation
distinct from the standard electric and magnetic multipole expansion. We show
how a simple arrangement of strongly radiatively coupled atoms can be used to
synthesize a toroidal dipole where the toroidal topology is generated by
radiative transitions forming an effective poloidal electric current wound
around a torus. We extend the protocol for methods to prepare a delocalized
collective excitation mode consisting of a synthetic lattice of such toroidal
dipoles and a non-radiating, yet oscillating charge-current configuration,
dynamic anapole, for which the far-field radiation of a toroidal dipole is
identically canceled by an electric dipole.
