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

Province

Africa Proconsularis
Africa proconsularis (Pleiades)

Province Description

The history of Roman Africa begins in 146 BC with the destruction of Carthage and the establishment of the province of Africa in the most fertile part of the Carthaginian Empire. The new province covered about 5000 square miles (17,172 square kilometers) of the northern part of modern Tunisia. A praetor governed the area from his headquarters at Utica. The Romans inherited a thriving agriculture developed by the Carthaginians. The climate was hospitable. Wheat and barley were the most important cereals; wine and olive oil were also produced and there were various fruit trees.

Location

Pupput
Pupput (Pleiades)

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

Location Description

Pupput is located about three km to the northwest of Hammamet. 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.

Garden

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

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Garden Description

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 basin in the N facing the triclinium (Plan view, Fig.1). The house is dated from the II-III c.

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Plans

Plan of the House of the Black and White Triclinium; Ch. Peirce, in Ben Abed Ben Khader, A., 1990 — Fig. 1: Plan of the House of the Black and White Triclinium (Ch. Peirce, from Ben Abed Ben Khader, A., 1990)

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Dates

2nd-4th century CE

Bibliography

Ben Abed Ben Khader, A., “Présentation de la maison du triclinium en noir et blanc à Pupput”, in Bulletin des Travaux de l'Institut National d'Archéologie et de I 'Art (Tunis) 3, 1989 (1990), pp. 32-33.
Ben Abed Ben Khader, A., Griesheimer, M., "Fouilles de la nécropole romaine de Pupput (Tunisie)", in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 145ᵉ année, N. 1, 2001. pp. 553-592, fig. 1, p.557. (worldcat)
Ben Abed Ben Khader, A., "Les maisons de Pupput (Tunisie)", in Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 150ᵉ année, N. 1, 2006. pp. 510-518, fig. 2, p. 513. (worldcat)
Bullo, S., Ghedini, F., Amplissimae atque ornatissimae domus: l'edilizia residenziale nelle città della Tunisia romana, Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2003, pp.188-189. (worldcat)

Publication date

21 Apr 2021