June 19, 2011

The Pointing Finger in History

- Code of Hammurabi (3700 years ago), inscribed upon a 2.4 m tall index finer of black rock. London Museum.  Origin of the Golden Rule: "If a man knocks the teeth out of another man, his own teeth will be knocked out."


- Sistine Chapel: God and Man touching. Vatican


- Colossus of Constantine, 12m statue, right hand pointing.
File:Hand Constantine Musei Capitolini MC786.jpg

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