This morning on the radio I heard there is a display of Moses and the tablets inside the SC building over where the justices sit? Anyone know details on this?
According to Weinman, the designer of this frieze, the tablet visible between the two central male figures, engraved with the Roman numerals
According to the Office of the Curator of the Supreme Court of the United States, these figures were selected as a representation of secular law:
Weinman's training emphasized a correlation between the sculptural subject and the function of the building and, because of this, [architect Cass] Gilbert relied on him to choose the subjects and figures that best reflected the function of the Supreme Court building. Faithful to classical sources, Weinman designed for the Courtroom friezes a procession of "great lawgivers of history," from many civilizations, to portray the development of secular law.