{"id":14683,"date":"2011-09-06T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:02:26","slug":"from-the-national-museum-of-carthage-to-the-antonine-baths-carthage-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14683","title":{"rendered":"From the National Museum of Carthage to the Antonine Baths, Carthage, Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first floor of the National Museum of Carthage includes several sculptures and many artifacts of ancient Carthage. The museum also holds a mosaic entitled &#8220;Pots of Roses in a Rose Garden&#8221;, but this mosaic is not actually from Carthage but rather from Sidi Ghrib, an archeological site located 30 km from Tunis. Traveling then to the Antonine Baths, the route passes ancient Phoenician graves, some of the few visible remains of the city before the Romans. Finally, just before reaching the Antonine Baths, the route follows a Roman Road, made of stone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/National-Museum-of-Carthage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14684\" title=\"First Floor of the National Museum of Carthage\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/National-Museum-of-Carthage.jpg\" alt=\"First Floor of the National Museum of Carthage\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/National-Museum-of-Carthage.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/National-Museum-of-Carthage-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/National-Museum-of-Carthage-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>First Floor of the National Museum of Carthage<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 First Floor of the National Museum of Carthage (Carthage, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 07 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pots-of-Roses-in-a-Rose-Garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14685\" title=\"Pots of Roses in a Rosegarden\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pots-of-Roses-in-a-Rose-Garden.jpg\" alt=\"Pots of Roses in a Rosegarden\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pots-of-Roses-in-a-Rose-Garden.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pots-of-Roses-in-a-Rose-Garden-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pots-of-Roses-in-a-Rose-Garden-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pots of Roses in a Rose Garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Pots of Roses in a Rose Garden (Carthage, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 07 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phoenician-Graves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14686\" title=\"Phoenician Graves\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phoenician-Graves.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenician Graves\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phoenician-Graves.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phoenician-Graves-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phoenician-Graves-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phoenician Graves<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Phoenician Graves (Carthage, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 07 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Roman-Road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14687\" title=\"Roman Road to the Antonine Baths\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Roman-Road.jpg\" alt=\"Roman Road to the Antonine Baths\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Roman-Road.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Roman-Road-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Roman-Road-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Roman Road to the Antonine Baths<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Roman Road to the Antonine Baths (Carthage, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 07 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first floor of the National Museum of Carthage includes several sculptures and many artifacts of ancient Carthage. The museum also holds a mosaic entitled &#8220;Pots of Roses in a Rose Garden&#8221;, but this mosaic is not actually from Carthage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[322,311,323],"class_list":["post-14683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-carthage","tag-mediterranean-vacation","tag-tunisia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3OP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22628,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions\/22628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}