The Unswept Floor Herakleitos

The unswept floor herakleitos.

It is installed on a wall not a floor so maybe it should really be called the unswept wall. 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 mosaic bears the signature of the artist heraclitus ηρακλιτοσ ηργασατο. 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.

In the second century ad a certain herakleitos makes a copy of the unswept floor original by sosus of pergamon. The unswept floor by herakleitos 2nd century ce. The mosaic is also referred to as the mosaico della vigna lupi and is also related to a certain c. 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.

Musei vaticani museo gregoriano profano rome. Heraclitus of ephesus ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ t ə s. The unswept floor is approximately 6 feet 1800 mm high x 9 feet 2700 mm long.