Loggia di raffaello, 09, 04

The prophet Moses stands at the left of the composition, holding the two stone tablets inscribed with symbolic characters. Rays of light, traditionally interpreted as horns due to a translation of the Hebrew 'keren', emanate from his forehead to signify his divine encounter. To the right, a crowd of men and women kneel and raise their hands in a mixture of reverence, prayer, and awe.

Moses was a central figure in the Renaissance 'prisca theologia', regarded by Neoplatonists like Ficino and Pico della Mirandola as an ancient sage who received both the written Law and a secret, oral mystical tradition (the Kabbalah). This scene represents the transmission of divine intelligence into the material world of human governance and ritual.