DRAFT

Peristyle Market (Marché)

Author: Wilhelmina Jashemski

Contributor: Nicholas Gill

Permalink: https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/id/88a590cc40/

Published: 2021-04-21

Modified: 2025-09-16

Dates

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Garden Description

The market located to the SW of the forum had a peristyle that enclosed an open space that may have been planted. With no evidence, Merlin suggested that the courtyard was paved with white mosaics but scholars do not agree. A large shade tree grows there today.

Images

Fig. 1: Plan of the Market(CMT, V. II, fasc.1, pp. 9-11, plan 3-4)

Bibliography

CMT, Thuburbo Majus, Les mosaïques de la région du Forum, V. II, fasc.1, INA, Tunis, 1980, pp. 9-11, plan 3-4. (Worldcat)
Ben Abed-Ben Khader, A., Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie, Thuburbo Majus, Les mosaïques de la région Ouest, V. II, fasc.3, INA, Tunis, 1987.(worldcat)

Keywords

peristyles (Roman courtyards)AAT:300080971
mosaics (visual works)AAT:300015342
open air markets AAT:300444923

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