The herakleitos copy discovered in 1833 at vigna lupi on the aventine hill is now kept at vatican museums.
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.
It is installed on a wall not a floor so maybe it should really be called the unswept wall.
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.
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.
Musei vaticani museo gregoriano profano rome.
Heraclitus of ephesus ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ t ə s.
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 by herakleitos 2nd century ce.
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.