The mosaic bears the signature of the artist heraclitus ηρακλιτοσ ηργασατο.
The unswept floor herakleitos.
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.
Heraclitus of ephesus ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ t ə s.
Due to the oracular and paradoxical nature of.
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.
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.
Musei vaticani museo gregoriano profano rome.