At the Musée de Carthage, housed in the former French cathedral seminary, the ground floor features some fine 5th-century AD mosaics featuring lots of peachy bottoms; a Roman sculpture of a boozy Silenus and Maenad continues the sensual theme. There are lamps dating from the 4th century BC to the 7th century AD, some still blackened by smoke.
Particularly striking among the Punic remains are the domestic objects - masks painted on fragile ostrich shells, some beautiful engraved 3rd-century razors with duck-shaped handles, and a 4th-century BC terracotta baby bottle in the shape of a bird. There's also a fragment of a Punic town-planning inscription. But the highlight are two magnificent 4th-century BC stone-carved sarcophagi, showing a reclining man and woman - naturalistic representations that seem less ancient than they are, and echo Egyptian and Etruscan influences.
Upstairs, the displays are divided into different themes, one of which describes the final siege of Punic Carthage (149-146 BC) and shows the Punic terracotta bullets and the Roman lead ones. With a few centuries' worth of hindsight, the Roman versions look more lethal. There is some beautifully worked jewellery from a Punic tomb, and many more fragments from daily life and work more than 2000 years ago, such as amphorae and fishing bits and bobs.
