Matteo di Giovanni received for this design 4 lire only,[54] on May 23rd, 1483; but it cost 2,654 lire 52 c. to restore.
Of this Sibyl also nothing is known, though she too has been confounded with the Delphic Sibyl. Most of the longer lists, however, include both. From the label designating her we learn that she prophesied at Ancyra. She is here brought before us attired in what we may suppose the artist intended to represent Phrygian or semi-Oriental dress. She holds aloft in her left hand a small book open at the words:
(I am the only God, and there is no other God.)
Her right hand directs attention to a tablet, on a lyre-shaped support, between which are seen half-length figures and heads of nude suppliants, apparently rising from the grave.
The inscription on the tablet runs as follows:
TVBA DE CAELO VOCEM LV CTVOSAM EM ITET TARTARE VM CHAOS OSTENDET DEHIS CENS TERRA VENIET AD TRIBV NAL DEI REGES OMNES DEVS IPSE IVDICANS PIOS SIMVL ET IMPIOS TVNC DEMVM IM PIOS IN IGNEM ET TENEBRAS MITTET QVI AVTEM PIETA TEM TENET ITERV VIVENT
(The trumpet shall utter from Heaven a mournful sound. Yawning earth shall show Tartarean Chaos. All Kings shall come before the Tribunal of God. God Himself judging the Evil and the Good together. Then at length He will send the wicked into fire and darkness. But whosoever will keep righteousness shall live again.)
Luigi di Ruggiero (_l’Armellino_) and Vito di Marco are generally reputed to have devised and executed this design, but no record exists on the subject. The cost of restoration was 2,433 lire 91 c.
The inscription beneath the feet of this Sibyl says that she was born on Trojan soil, and was, according to Heraclides, a contemporary of Cyrus. Hence, no doubt, she also has been confused with the Erythraean Sibyl. It is very probable indeed, as we have before hinted, that time, tradition, and the varying expressions of different writers have divided the personality of that one Sibyl into several, according to the various places that she is reported to have visited.[55]
ALINARI PHOTO.] [DESIGNED BY NEROCCIO DI LANDI
The figure is a graceful one, but suggests somewhat gigantic proportions. Her hair flows over her shoulders, though partially confined by ribbons, and crowned with a jewelled diadem. In her left hand she holds a half-open book. Her robe is loosely confined by a small girdle set with gems.