Figures and dragons

The necks of two monsters are seized by a human figure, sitting below each corner of the capital. Their heads (now lost) originally substituted volutes in the corners of the capital. Their vertical wings overlap in the middle axis of each side of the capital in front of the serpent tails which are coiled just over the annulet. The monsters grasp the knees of the small figures in their massive claws. Because of the ruined condition of the four corners, it is impossible to say whether here, as in the Porte des Comtes in Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, the monster heads originally touched each other and swallowed the human heads. The fine preservation of the figures is quite consistent with the representation of the torments of hell.
The impost block is decorated with a frieze of outspread fan-like palms, similar to those in N13MS51, E05MS23 and E11MS29, or also W09MS65.

hell Monster human figure torments Palm fan Toulouse Saint-Sernin