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[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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