The Unswept Floor Herakleitos

The unswept floor mosaic by herakleitos in the decorative style known as asàrotos òikos inspired by sosus of pergamon 2nd century ad museum gregoriano profano vatican.

The unswept floor herakleitos.

The unswept floor is approximately 6 feet 1800 mm high x 9 feet 2700 mm long. The herakleitos copy discovered in 1833 at vigna lupi on the aventine hill is now kept at vatican museums. 504 3 bc 501 0 bc son of bloson was a pre socratic ionian greek philosopher and a native of the city of ephesus in modern day turkey and then part of the persian empire. The unswept floor by herakleitos 2nd century ce.

Detail from a mosaic that once decorated the dining room floor of a villa on the aventine hill rome at the time of the emperor hadrian. The unswept floor that was shown in the photograph on wikimedia commons is actually a small part of a much larger mosaic as this tiny picture of the surviving portion of the mosaic illustrates. The mosaic bears the signature of the artist heraclitus ηρακλιτοσ ηργασατο.

The mosaic is also referred to as the mosaico della vigna lupi and is also related to a certain c. In the second century ad a certain herakleitos makes a copy of the unswept floor original by sosus of pergamon. Musei vaticani museo gregoriano profano rome.