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House of the Cascade

Domus Cataractae
DomusAfrica Proconsularis · Utica, TunisiaBuilt 50 CE

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The House of the Cascade takes its name from a marble-lined pool where water spilled through a fountain in a Roman townhouse built in the 1st century CE. Its floor mosaics of fishing cupids and tritons predate similar scenes elsewhere in Roman Africa by a full century. Archaeologists still count it among the best-preserved private houses at Utica. By 117 CE the house had stood for decades, its cascade still running for a wealthy Uticensian family.

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