Recto: details from interior of tomb. Verso: plan of tomb and section with measurements. This sheet is one of a group of twenty-five folios by an unidentified Portuguese hand found in the first part of the album Architectura Civile (RCIN 910354-60, 910364-76, 910378-80, 910427, 910440). For further see dal Pozzo A.IX, pp. 312-317.

Recto: The ink of the annotations differs from that of the drawings and was used for the annotations and some drawings on 910378. The watermark occurs again on 910369. All the drawings are details from the interior of the tomb drawn on the verso. The recto contains a very finely drawn detail of the vault coffering, showing an octagon and circles in elaborately moulded frames, which must be of stucco; a detail in perspective, probably, but not certainly, of the modillion at the corner; a plan of part of the modillion course, including a corner; and a perspectival elevation of the interior side wall of the tomb, again very carefully drawn, showing the central semicircular niche with a triangular pediment, and the left-hand rectangular niche with a segmental pediment. The central niche has a shell head and other ornament, which is said to be painted. The rectangular niche contains a figural panel. Above the niches run the modillioned cornice and the circular coffers of the vault. Below is an arcisolium or burial niche. In the bottom right corner is a faint black chalk drawing of a decorative moulding or frieze.

Verso: The drawings and writing are all inverted in relation to the recto, but relate to the same tomb on the via Nomentana, 1. miles beyond the Porta Pia, near Sant'Agnese (Baccanario is a name for the adjacent Santa Costanza; see Serlio Architettura, fol. 58). The drawing style is particularly fine, and in a paler brown ink than usual. The perspectival section of the interior of the tomb, showing the long side, is drawn in detail on the recto. The end wall and its larger central niche are slightly too narrow in relation to the rest. Two minor niches (for lamps or single cremation burials) that do not appear on the plan flank the end niche, and others are shown in and beside the last niche on the left-hand wall. Three arches are faintly sketched in below the floor level, within the podium. The podium profile indicates the two courses of travertine; the plan of the main chamber is very neatly drawn, with the larger semicircular niches in its shorter sides, one pierced by the entrance, and the tripartite arrangement of niches on the long sides. The exterior is decorated with pilasters, four on the short sides and six on the long. The tomb has not been identified.

Annotations: Recto: measurements all over in palmi; [right of plan, partly cut] pianta degli modeli(oni)/desta cimaza (‘plan of the modillions of this cornice’); [right of elevation] va encada huno destas/mensolas huo/ Roda (‘on/in each one of those brackets goes a (?)’; [on elevation] pignati (‘painted’); Verso: measurements on plan, in palmi; [on podium profile,] travertino [twice] (‘travertine’); [below podium profile] nel pedestalo sono dou saxas/ de trauertino de alteza duno/palma luno (‘in the pedestal are two courses of travertine of the height of one palmo each’); [left of plan] Queste tenpieto a e la sua proporcione/ cuadra a tanto de uano nlmezo di/ co la sua longeza como da ban/da di fare co todo lazeto dil/ pedestalo como dimostra / a letra. A.B et .C.D. (‘This temple-tomb a its proportion squares both the length of the space in the middle to its sides and the form of the podium as the letters AB and CD show’); [lower left of plan] Strada/nome(n)ta/na e lontano de/ porta nom di pia un mila e neza/ esta apreso la selchata/ este tempieto e antigo/ e de tera cota li mato/ne de li uolta de lenice sono di/ dui palmj e nezo dal/ teza. e apreso li baca/nario chamato sa(n)ta/ i nesi (‘Via Nomentana and distant from the Porta Pia a mile and a half. It stands near the basalt paving. This templetomb is ancient and of terracotta. The bricks of the vault(s) of the niches are two and a half palmi high. It is near the Baccanario called S. Agnese’); [on plan] edorden corintia (‘it is of the Corinthian order’).

Text adapted from Ian Campbell, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné. A.IX: Ancient Roman Topography, London 2004, cats.145-6.