House of the Hunt

A second Roman house on the upper terrace, slightly smaller than the House of the Cascade but with its own striking mosaics — most notably the hunting scene that gave the house its modern name. The composition runs the full length of the main room, with figures in motion across a pale ground.

Around the central panel are smaller scenes of vines and birds. The walls are gone but the floor plan reads clearly: an entrance vestibule, a peristyle, a triclinium for formal dining, and small private rooms behind. Like the rest of the site, it is unfenced and unlabelled — you wander straight onto the mosaics, which makes the visit feel oddly intimate.

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The central mosaic shows a leopard hunt — hounds, hunters with nets, and a single big cat in mid-leap. It is a reminder that wild leopards still roamed the Tunisian hills well into the Roman period and were rounded up by professional bestiarii for the arenas at Carthage.