Of this Sibyl we know nothing, and can only point out, as in the case of the Delphic and Erythraean Sibyls, that the latter of those prophetesses, though born in the Troad, made her principal abode at Samos: and that thus these three may have been one and the same person. We are told, by the label beneath her representation, that she is spoken of by Eratosthenes, a writer quoted by Lactantius, and whose work was one of the first books printed in Italy in 1465. [Illustration: ALINARI PHOTO.] [DESIGNED BY MATTEO DI GIOVANNI BARTOLI VII. THE SAMIAN SIBYL (No. 29)] This figure is one of the most beautiful of all the ten Sibyls, and well it may be, seeing that it was designed by that delightful draughtsman and earnest artist, Matteo di Giovanni Bartoli. A slender princess, with flowing draperies, she supports with her left hand a handsomely-bound open volume. A curious and characteristic feature of Matteo’s work is evident in the charming cherub-head, with outspread wings, that clasps a girdle round her robe below the hips. Beside her on a tablet, upborne by two lion-headed figures, is the following inscription: TV ENIM STVLTA IVDAEA DEVM TVVM NON CO GNOVISTI LVCENTEM MORTALIVM MENTI- BVS SED ET SPINIS CO RONASTI HORRIDVM QVE FEL MISCVISTI (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