9 FEBRUARY 2002, Page 33

Moses and his horn

From Mr Patrick Motile Sir: You illustrate your review of the exhibition of mediaeval sculpture on page 40 (Arts, 2 February) with a figure which is undoubtedly Moses, not 'an Apostle'. He is not only holding the two tablets of stone bearing the ten commandments and his staff entwined with a serpent, but is also horned, as he often is in the Middle Ages and later, thanks to a 12th-century mistranslation of Exodus 'oak! 30 ('quod cornuta esset facies sua').

Patrick Mottle

Yetminstcr. Dorset