House of the Fishing Scene

Dates

3rd century CE

Garden Description

The house stands on the other side of the Wadi Oum El Abid, on the left bank, 120 meters to the north of the capitol. The badly damaged rooms are arranged around a peristyle whose porticoes are paved with mosaics (Plan view, Fig.1). A long basin (euripus) the garden that was enclosed by a balustrade running in between the columns. One of the rooms to the north of the peristyle has two symmetrical apses at each end and is paved with a famous mosaic representing a fishing scene with the head of Oceanus depicted at either end. Severian period (IIIrd c.).

Plans

Bibliography

• Bullo, S., Ghedini, F., Amplissimae atque ornatissimae domus: l'edilizia residenziale nelle città della Tunisia romana, Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2003, pp. 30-31. (worldcat)
• Ennaifer, M., La cité d'Althiburos et l'édifice des Asclepieia, INA, Tunis, 1976, p. 58-63, plan pl. XXXIII. (worldcat)
• Merlin, A., Forum et maisons d'Althiburos, Notes et documents, VI, 1913, p. 36-38, plan pl. III. (worldcat)
• Rebuffat, R., "Maisons à péristyle d'Afrique du Nord: répertoire de plans publiés". In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, tome 81, n°2, 1969. pp. 659-724, p. 679, Althiburos 4. (worldcat)

Keywords

• domusAAT:300005506
• peristyle housesAAT:300005452
• euripus
• balustradesAAT:300001989
• villae urbanaeAAT:300005520

Explore the places containing this garden:

• Althiburos
• Africa Proconsularis