Mosaic Matrone at his toilet at the National Museum of Bardo

Sidi Ghrib is a Tunisian archaeological site about forty kilometers south-west of Carthage and four kilometers from Borj El Amri, known for its beautiful Roman mosaics .[1][2]

Archaeology

Sidi Ghrib Rosegarden mosaic

The site was searched in 1975. The study by Abdelmajid Ennabli[3][4][5] showed that the site was a Roman villa of the late 4th or early 5th century. The thermal baths at the site formed part of the villa and were therefore private. With a total area of 780 m 2, they measure 28 by 29 meters, around a frigidarium of about 8.5 meters by 9.5 meters.

Description of the mosaics

  1. Matron at her toilette, displayed at the National Museum of Bardo, is a mosaic representing the domina, the mistress of house, occupied with her toilet and surrounded by two maidservants of which one holds a mirror and the other carries a basket containing various jewels. At the end of the mosaic, the artist presented the necessary accessories for the bath: a pair of sandals, a basket of linen, a pitcher, etc.;[6]
  2. Master of the house leaving for the hunting exhibition at the presidential palace of Carthage. [7]

These representations with the aim of social affirmation are frequent at the end of antiquity .

References

  1. ↑ Michèle Blanchard-Lemée, "About the mosaics of Sidi Ghrib: Venus, the Gaurus and a poem by Symachus", Mixtures of the French School of Rome. Antiquity , vol. 100, No. 100-1, 1988, p. 367-384
  2. ↑ Mohamed Yacoub , Splendours of the mosaics of Tunisia , ed. National Heritage Agency, Tunis, 1995
  3. ↑ Abdelmajid Ennabli , "The thiase baths of Sidi Ghrib (Tunisia)", Monuments and memories of the Eugene Piot Foundation , vol. 68, No. 68, 1986, p. 1-59
  4. ↑ Abdelmajid Ennabli and Lucinda Neuru, "Excavations at Sidi Ghrib", Echoes of the Classical World / Classical Views , vol. XXXVIII, No. 13, 1994/2, p. 207-220
  5. ↑ Abdelmajid Ennabli and Lucinda Neuru, "Tunisia: Recent excavations at Sidi-Grib", Field notes , No. 18, 1993, pp. 27-31, pl. 13-18
  6. ↑ Mohamed Yacoub, Splendours of the mosaics of Tunisia, ed. National Heritage Agency, Tunis, 1995, p. 222
  7. ↑ Mohamed Yacoub, Splendours of the mosaics of Tunisia , ed. National Heritage Agency, Tunis, 1995, p. 224
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