The museum

The El Jem Museum has a remarkable collection of mosaics from El Jem and the surrounding area. Under the peristyle of the courtyard there are fragments of sculpture and inscriptions from sarcophagi, as well as some some mosaics, one of which represents a strutting peacock and to cupids.
In the main room below the gallery the visitor can view the famous mosaic of Orpheus enchanting the animals.

The room at the far end of the museum houses a quite exquisite composition, the mosaic of Silenus : this consists of a hexagonal medallion with Silenus : this consists of a hexagonal medallion with Silenus and Cupid at the center and gnarled vine-stocks in each of the corners. Other scenes show a procession in honour of Dionysos, a tiger attacking two wild asses and a lion devouring a wild boar.