The House of the Hunt takes its name from the magnificent mosaic floor that survives in its underground reception room. The central scene depicts an elaborate hunting party — riders on horseback, hounds, and various game animals being driven across a stylised landscape. The detail and scale of the composition make it one of the finest hunting mosaics from Roman Africa still in its original location.
Like the House of Amphitrite nearby, the living quarters are entirely below ground level. You enter through a sloping passage and emerge into a series of interconnected rooms whose function you can still read — triclinium (dining room), peristyle (colonnaded courtyard), cubicula (bedrooms) — arranged around the central decorated floor. It is one of the best-preserved examples of Roman domestic architecture in Tunisia.