Tipaza's small museum has some fine funerary stele showing warriors on horseback and, the show-stopper of the collection, a mosaic of captives, which at its centre depicts parents and their son bound in ropes. Around the mosaics border are the heads of various Africans. The museum also contains some finely carved sarcophagi and some exquisite 1st- to 3rd-century AD glass objects.
Tipaza Museum
Algeria
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The founders of Tipasa (as Tipaza was known during the Roman era) obviously had an eye for aesthetics. The town rolls gently downhill through pine trees…
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A 10-minute drive east of Cherchell are the remains of a massive Roman-era aqueduct built by Juba II to bring water from a source 35km away. The 50m-high…
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This museum houses some of the finest sculptures and mosaics in the country. Among the highlights are marble busts of the royal family of Juba II, a rare…
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