(For thou, foolish Judaea! hast not known thy God, shining in the minds of men. But thou hast both crowned Him with thorns, and hast mixed for Him nauseous gall.)
At the foot of the tablet is the designer’s signature, with the date 1483. (Ill. VII.)
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.
The Phrygian Sibyl.
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:
| SOLVS | |
| DEUS | DEVS |
| SVM ET | ALIVS |
| NON EST |
(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