House of the West (Maison de l'est)

Authors: Wilhelmina Jashemski , Amina-Aïcha Malek

Contributor: Jinyi Yang

Permalink: https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-a/id/c3caa55c41/

Published: 2021-04-21

Modified: 2025-09-16

Dates

2nd century CE

Garden Description

The peristyle garden (V) has a rectangular basin with curved angles extending from two middle columns on the W side, facing the triclinium (XI). The house is dated to the II century.

Plans

Fig.1: Plan of the House of the West (CMT, plan 4)

Bibliography

Bullo, S. and F. Ghedini,. Amplissimae atque ornatissimae domus: l'edilizia residenziale nelle città della Tunisia romana, Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2003, pp.339-340. (worldcat)
Dulière, C., Ben Baaziz, S., et al., Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie, Utique, Les Mosaïque in situ en dehors des insulae I-II-III, INA, Tunis, 1974, pp.19-26, plans 4. (worldcat)

Keywords

domus AAT:300005506
peristyle houses AAT:300005452
triclinia (rooms)AAT:300004359
basins (vessels)AAT:300045614
mosaics (visual works)AAT:300015342

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Utica
Africa Proconsularis