A bronze statue of Moses by Croatian artist Josip Turkalj[1][2] installed at the main campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, just outside of the Hesburgh Library.
[1] It is composed of the image of Moses pointing a finger to the sky with the table of commandments in the other hand.
[10][8] First Down Moses, according to students, also signals that the Notre Dame football team is number one, hence the statue's hand pointing to the sky.
Initially it was thought to be "a mistranslation, because the Hebrew word for horns can also refer to rays of light.
"[11] Nevertheless, as scholars have continued to research they have come to the conclusion that the representation of Moses with horns may have been "referring to one of the most famous depictions of Moses in sculpture, the early-16th century statue by Michelangelo that forms part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.