The unswept floor by herakleitos 2nd century ce.
The unswept floor herakleitos.
Heraclitus of ephesus ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ t ə s.
Due to the oracular and paradoxical nature of.
The mosaic bears the signature of the artist heraclitus ηρακλιτοσ ηργασατο.
Musei vaticani museo gregoriano profano rome.
The herakleitos copy discovered in 1833 at vigna lupi on the aventine hill is now kept at vatican museums.
It is installed on a wall not a floor so maybe it should really be called the unswept wall.
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.
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.
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 is approximately 6 feet 1800 mm high x 9 feet 2700 mm long.