He further adds that the tomb was entered at its extreme end by a door, which led to a little chamber where lay the body of the Pope, and that bronze bas-reliefs formed a prominent feature of the total scheme.

He reckons that more than forty statues would have been required to complete the whole design, although he has only mentioned twenty-two of the most prominent.
More than this we do not know about the first project.

We have no contracts and no sketches that can be referred to the date 1505.

Much confusion has been introduced into the matter under consideration by the attempt to reconcile Condivi's description with the drawing I have just alluded to.

Heath Wilson even used that drawing to impugn Condivi's accuracy with regard to the number of the captives, and the seated figures on the platform.