Cite this place Malek, A. (2025). "Pupput." Gardens of the Roman Empire, accessed June 18, 2026. https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/5e67228278/

Pupput

Author: Amina-Aïcha Malek

Contributor: Keith Jenkins

Published: 2025-09-16

Last modified: 2026-06-08

Pupput is located about three km to the northwest of Hammamet, Tunisia. Two inscriptions inform the designated title of the city, which became a colony (Colonia Aurelia Commoda Pia Felix Augusta Pupput) under the reign of Commodus. The city benefited from a strategic location at the crossroads linking Clupea to Thhuburbo and Carthage to Hadrumetum. Large residential quarters with houses and baths were excavated as well as a large necropolis.

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Plan of the residential quarters
Credit: (Th. Leroy, from Ben Abed Ben Khader, A., Griesheimer, M., 2001)

Places

2 garden articles in Pupput have been published:

The house is laid out around a square shaped peristyle garden. Between the columns runs a low wall (0.30m) that separates the porticoes from the garden. There was a semicircular ...

The house was located in the W neighborhood of the ancient city of Pupput and in present day lies in the precinct of a hotel, the construction of which badly damaged the house (Pl...

Pupput

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Places

House of the Black and White Triclinium (Maison du triclinium en noir et blanc)

House of the Viridarium with Niches (Maison du viridarium à niches)