Alright, I think we've finally got to a straight forward picture. There's ol' Moses with the “law” represented by the Ten Commandments. Next to him is Jesus with “grace”, represented by the cross, and “truth”, depicted in a mini-Jesus teaching a crowd of bald people. I wonder if the bald people are jealous of mini-Jesus' salon perfect hair or maybe the highlights in his beard?
MISCONCEPTION CORRECTION: How did you know it was the Ten Commandments that Moses was showing off? It certainly wasn't by reading them. (As you can tell, I have no idea how to write in Hebrew. If you look closely, you'll notice a lot of the characters from the first tablet are reused on the second by simply turning them upside-down.) It's that beautiful stone shape with the rounded top that we've grown to know and love. Unfortunately, according to rabbinic tradition those buggers were rectangular. The rounded tablets don't show up in artwork until the Middle Ages, mimicking some of the writing tablets of the day.
If the next time you get a haircut you ask for the “Jesus look”:
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