Pliny the Elder recounts about the Spartan sculptors Sauro and Batraco, they were commissioned to build the Portico of Octavia in the Ghetto.
They were rich and worked without being rewarded. Their only reward was to see their names written on the sculptures.
The clients denied this right to them and the builders devised an ingenious way to sign the work.
The name Sauro in Greek means Lizard and Batraco,in greek, indicates the frog, so they sculpted these animals among the capitals.
One of the capitals was moved and used to build a new church, and is located in the central nave of San Lorenzo outside the Walls.
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