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    The house of africa undoubtedly occupies a privileged position in the Africa domestic architecture, but it mainly stands out by the sumptuousness of its floors decoration. Indeed its mosaics are characterized as much by the iconographic richness of their ornamentation as by the absolutely rare uncommon nature of some of their patterns.
 

    Two of these mosaics are unique in all the Africa repertory and have practically no equivalent in the Roman world.

 
    These two mosaics acquired a great deal of fame both in Tunisia and abroad, where they were put on display in great exhibits, particularly at the Petit Palais in Paris (1994) and at the Museo Nazional di Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome (1997).
In addition to these two exceptional mosaics, there are others with high documentary value such as : “still life” mosaic (featuring fish, games, fruits) in the aforementioned “triclinium”; the one featuring jumping beasts showing a rare execution finesse and which appear to have adorned a small bedroom; that of the splendid “ birth of Venus” designed in the manner o “Botcellini”; the latter represent the latest discovery and was found in an exedra, style private quarter.

 

The mosaic of Africa

Rome and provinces

 

 

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