The sibyls were oracles in Ancient Greece. These twelve are seven male Prophets of Israel and five "Sibyls," prophetesses of classical mythology. Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. They represent the sibyls, scenes from the Old Testament, allegories and virtues. Lactantius quoted the Sibyls extensively (although the Sibylline Oracles are now known to be pseudepigrapha). The blue vault shows us God surrounded by angels, prophets and sibyls. The image was inspired by Michelangelo's Sibyls from the Sistine Chapel. The earliest sibyls, according to legend, prophesied at holy sites. The entablature frieze has 17 figures, including biblical characters and the Sibyls. The spaces between them are filled by reclining figures of the Four Sibyls. Maytera Mint is one of the sibyls of the Sun Street manteion. Between 1481 and 1483 the ten panels of the "Sibyls" were worked out. Indeed, Philip Melanchthon compared it to the proverbial obscurity of the Sibyls. Part I involves 9 Sibyls, represented by female singers. When more money was needed he took from temples and Sibyls alike.