House of the Nymphs - Nabeul, Tunisia - Preserved Architectural Remnants and Ruins on Waymarking.com

Nymharium domus (4th c. AD)

This Private house which could in fact have been a schola for philosophy, occupied the width of a block. It was a large and sumptuous face area of 1500m2, comprising about twenty rooms; some opened onto a paved street and were probably used as shops. Most of the rooms, fifteen or so, were paved with polychrome mosaics. They were arranged around a vast garden in the middle of which was an apse shaped basin decorated on the inside with a mosaic representing figured motifs : a fine head of god Oceanus bordered on the right and left with different species of fish and other marine creatures, such as small dolphin a lobster; above these representations is a Latin inscription n yellow cubes on a dark background indiating, in the fashion of a plate, the name of the house. Nympharum domus, the House of Nymphs. these fine mosaics are displayed in the small Nabeul Museum.

Source: Information table at site

Type: Ruin Fee: 5 Hours: From 16/09 to 31/03 09.0 - 13.000 / 14.00 - 17.00 From 01/04 to 15/09 09.00 - 13.00 / 16.00 - 19.00 Related URL: [Web Link]

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