 The Arab philosopher is possibly representing the polyhistor Avicenna or Averroes, both Arab philosophers and Arab scientists from the Islamic Golden Age.The young man could be seen as the new Renaissance science with roots in the past, looking into the empty darkness of the cave, symbolizing the yet undiscovered secrets.The cave might also symbolize the philosophic concept of Plato's Cave

New hypotheses about the figures, their identities and the symbolism are still currently advanced.