A wish bone a claw some fruit various discarded limbs of sea creatures the remains of a fish davidson s analysis illuminates further what we can see and should see on the piece.
The unswept floor.
The unswept floor poster publication with text by curator lucy hammonds.
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Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented.
The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c.
The unswept floor dunedin public art gallery 12 march 19 june 2016.
Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184.
Details of koko mosaico.
This depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast including fish fruit and other fragments of food.
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Doves drinking from a bowl.
The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon.
The mosaic was found in 1833 during construction work in the vineyard of achille lupi near the bastione di sangallo porta ardeatina see a rome art.
In many respects this table top made by arianna gallo of koko mosaico is an unrelated trompe d oeil of ordinary stuff accumulated on a coffee table.
Design by karina mcleod.
Across a white background is an even scattering of debris.
Swept definition simple past tense and past participle of sweep1.
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As described by pliny it is a floor mosaic which depicted the leftovers of a meal on a floor.
By sosos of pergamon and here by the.
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.
But the floor is not really the.
Which technique was used to make the mosaic the unswept floor fig.
This splendid mosaic made up of tiny pieces of glass and coloured marble once decorated the floor of the dining room of a villa on the aventine hill in rome at the time of the emperor hadrian.