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Memento mori  wikidata:Q112294891 reasonator:Q112294891
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Memento mori
label QS:Lit,"Memento mori"
label QS:Len,"Memento mori"
label QS:Lfr,"Memento mori (Pompéi)"
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Object type mosaic Edit this at Wikidata
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1st century BC
date QS:P,-050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Dimensions height: 47 cm (18.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 41.5 cm (16.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+47U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+41.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q637248
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Identifier: pompeiiitslifear00maua (find matches)
Title: Pompeii, its life and art
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909 Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The garden on which the colonnade opened contains an open-air triclinium. The table was ornamented with a mosaic top, now in the Naples Museum, with a characteristic design (Fig. 230). The principal motive is a skull; below is a butterfly on the rim of a wheel, symbols of the fluttering of the disembodied soul and of the flight of time. On the right and on the left are the spoils that short-lived man leaves behind him, — here a wanderer's staff, a wallet, and a beggar's tattered robe; there, a sceptre, with a mantle of royal purple. Over all is a level, with the

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plumb line hanging straight, symbolic of Fate, that sooner or later equalizes the lots of all mankind. The thought of the tanner, or of the earlier proprietor of the house, is easy to divine: Mors aurcui vcliens, Vivite, ait, venio, ‘ Death plucks my ear, and says, “ Live! ” for I come.’

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