[PB.17L] [PB.17] 17
[Pillar D, 21st Capital] Pillar D in plan. Same figure. [These notes link with p.17L]
5. Shovelling grapes (one figure), into
[diagram] a tub - beautifully cut with sharp planks
5 as below with v crossed timbers
over it. I am not sure that they are
6 4 grapes but berries of some
kind
7 3 1. man with wrinkled [diagram] - indecipherable
brow beating in morter
8 2 with hammer 4. man planing. broken
Carpentarius sum
1
4. A man planing a beam resting on two
[Ruskin’s transcription] Lapi [C?] IDA hexagonal logs - much broken.
8. A man in a large skull cap, with hammer, beating 2. has a smaller hammer and
something like a sword - or a carriage spring or a sharp anvil [diagram]
scythe blade, long & curved on an anvil. inscribed
Faber Sum I cant make out
3. Making shoes - one pointed [drawing] 2. also Ind (Let ind bc - or [p?] - indecipherable)
shoe in the hand - a curious - a figure with a smaller hammer than
[P?] leather cutter hung up at that of 8. striking something convex
side- above his head; as below and flat above [diagram] - on a
here given: note particularly small anvil
the sharp line above the [diagram] hand
handle . so thoroughly expressive
of this line always are wooden handles. an old
____________ + 1. a man . with a finely wrinkled brow
^
7. In hanging cap - writing on long scroll and expressive face. note this wrinkling
which falls over knee: The pen. which has beating in a kind of mortar with a hammer
been cut clean, is broken away Notarius sum Inscription. Lapicida Sum.
6. A man with the large hoe. Used like an adze Done.
chopping up ground. Which lies in clodded
furrows before him. f
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+ Few of the figures are carried so far in
expression or finish as this [?] 1: and indeed
those to the front are generally better
cared for.
Done
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