Small marble statue of a Prophet holding a scroll by Nanni di Banco, first decade of the 15th century, originally surmounting the lateral pinnacles of the Porta della Mandorla. Nanni di Banco’s relief of Mary’s Assumption for the Porta della Mandorla was flanked by two statues of Prophets by different artists. The two Prophets shown here foreshadow the role of Mary, the handmaid of God, in the salvation of humanity. The Porta della Mandorla, like all the Cathedral’s doors, is decorated with scenes from the life of the Madonna, therefore the two figures, lacking any of the traditional indications of their identity, are presumed to be representative of the prophets of Israel, whose writings are conventionally interpreted by the Catholic Church as regarding the Mother of Jesus. Nanni di Banco’s statue is also identified as a Prophet by his robes and scroll, the latter symbolic of the Old Testament containing the relevant prophecies.