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Roman Mosaics of
Tunisia
The Bardo Museum and
that of Sousse have one of the finest collections of Roman mosaics in the world thanks to the excavations from the early twentieth century on the various archaeological sites of the country of Carthage, Hadrumetum Dougga
Bulla Regia and El Jem. Some of these works have had a celebrity
Globally, such "Ulysses and the Sirens" "Virgil" or "Neptune and the pirates".
Neptune
confronting the pirates (Bardo Museum)
Ulysses tied to the mast by his companions to resist the songs of
Sirens (Bardo Museum)
The
Triumph of Neptune, haloed head and mounted on a
chariot drawn by four sea horses (Bardo Museum)
Triumph of Neptune and the goddess of the sea Amphitrite
(Bardo Museum)
The poet Virgil, shown seated between Clio, muse of history, and
Melpomene, muse of tragedy. It takes, on his lap, the Aeneid & nbsp; (Bardo Museum)
Triumph of Neptune standing on a chariot pulled by two seahorses (Sousse Museum)
Dionysus giving a grape to Icarus
(Oudhna)
Neptune
god of eve the sea baths (Oudhna)
Venus navy, goddess of fertility and renewal
the "House of Amphitrite" in the archaeological site of Bulla Regia
Decor
Roman baths (Sbeïtla)
Mosaic representing hunting Pygmy hippo
(Sousse Museum)
Latin inscriptions (Sbeïtla)
Unloading
a ship by slaves and weighing of lead bars (Bardo Museum)
Palaeochristian baptistry (Sousse)
Scene
fishing (Oudhna)
Scene
to hunt (Oudhna)
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