The six rather worn white marble statuettes, positioned in front of the central door group of the ancient facade, originate from the niches of the so-called "del Campanile" door on the southern side of the cathedral. Scholars attribute them to artists who succeeded Arnolfo di Cambio and have suggested that they belonged to a group of ten statues created in the first quarter of the 14th century for the niches of the splays of the cathedral’s main portal (as their dimensions match), where they were likely replaced in the second half of the century. If they indeed came from the main portal, they would represent evangelists and apostles, though their individual identification is challenging. The figures depict men of varying ages and appearances, all dressed in an ancient style with sandals and tunics, some holding a book or a scroll. Two of them can be identified iconographically by their traditional attributes: the evangelist John with an eagle and Matthew holding a small angel. The headless statuette may have originally held a lion, the symbol of Mark, or a bull, the symbol of Luke. Meanwhile, the figure of a man with curly hair, a beard, a book, and a richly decorated robe could represent Bartholomew, who, according to hagiographic tradition, received a precious garment as a gift from a king he had converted to Christianity. Identifying the remaining figures is more difficult: one depicts a bald man with a long beard holding a book (perhaps an evangelist?), while another, a young man wearing a toga with curly hair and a scroll in one hand, is generically identified as an apostle.