[PB.20L]                                                              [PB.20]							20
                                                                      
				[?]      in crown with                                            Pillar B in plan.
					   hammer employed                                               
					        on other                                                 1.	“St Simplicius”	(observe . this
					Decipher name another day                                        pillar is peculiar as having in every
                                                                      figure, a piece of coloured marble let
                                                                      in: a piece of refinement quite new to me)
[drawing] Fig 1	[landscape orientation]                               This figure is puzzling: it has no crown.
                                                                      the right hand is held up with the palm
Red marble let in                                                     outwards: open. In the left is a pointed
                                                                      chisel a (find name of this sculptors
                                                                      instrument with the point ) which is rested
                                                                      point towards as if working on a
                                                                      block of the beautiful white and green
                                                                      [Baiae ?] stone - verd antique. let in. about
                                                                      5 or 4 inches long by one broad.
                                                                      
                                                                      8.	S. SIMTV
                                                                      
                                                                      Looks almost like a female: has a beautiful
                                                                      open crown and a sharp edged chisel
                                                                      in left hand. hammer in right; employed
                                                                      upon a statue of which the body is
                                                                      broken away: but the feet and cap
                                                                      are left. it has been recumbent. (I think
                                                                      a bishop). on a pillow covered with a leaf
                                                                      pattern given real size fig 1. last  page L.
                                                                      L .  and the whole figure - pillow and all
                                                                      is supported on a block of dark red
                                                                      marble let in  The foot of the principal
                                                                      figure in beautiful sandal - real size last
                                                                      page l. fig 2. [not numbered on page]
                                                                      
                                                                      7. A mason at work on a pure Lombard
                                                                      leaf capital with a square shaft let in
                                                                      of (porphyry) or rosso antico. ie. dark
                                                                      red spotted with pale red, and a square

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