[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_________________________________________ + 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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