THE MUSEUM

The Petit museum features beautiful mosaics and statues on the site. Some are lecoque in English, others not.

In the first room, very beautiful mosaics come from the Palais des Columns and the house in Triconque. On the left wall, mosaics with fish, fowls, jellyfish heads, discovered in the Palais des Columns (th century BC). On the wall opposite, the large paving of mosaics with busts of the tolerable seasons.

The left room houses inscriptions of the first centuries of Islam from the Site site (Al-Marj) and the stelas dating from the first Christian centuries. There are also statues and pediments of marble in good condition, including two faceless funeral statues, similar to those found in the necropolis of Cyrene, and a th century sarcophagus (extended Roman couple).

The hall of the right preserves mosaics of Byzantine times. A pavement coming from the villa of Orphée shows Charmant charming the attroupées beasts (th or th century). ). A marble fountain adorned with dancing bacchantes allows to imagine the ancient splendour of the Rue des Monuments. It would be the Roman copy of an original model of the famous Greek sculptor Callimaque of Athens (end of the Fifth century BC), to whom one attributed the invention of a new order of columns, said Corinthian.