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 mosaic is also referred to as the mosaico della vigna lupi and is also related to a certain c. The herakleitos copy discovered in 1833 at vigna lupi on the aventine hill is now kept at vatican museums. The unswept floor by herakleitos 2nd century ce.
Musei vaticani museo gregoriano profano rome. In the second century ad a certain herakleitos makes a copy of the unswept floor original by sosus of pergamon. 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. It is installed on a wall not a floor so maybe it should really be called the unswept wall.
The unswept floor is approximately 6 feet 1800 mm high x 9 feet 2700 mm long. Due to the oracular and paradoxical nature of. 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.