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The first room is devoted to Pre-Roman Bulla including portrayals of the main Numidian Kings and the history of the citythrough ceramics and votive stelae devoted to BALL HAMMON. The capital ,placed at the centre of the room , bears the sign of Tanit in relief ( one of the main Carthaginian divinities ) belonged to a temple .

The second room devoted to Roman Bulla presents, amongst other objects from the Roman period , an incineration tomb with both the remains of  incinerated bones and funerary objects. the tomb is surmounted by a flagstone bearing a cup with a Latin inscription giving the name of the deceased on one of its faces .

The history of the city and its geographical position are presented in a text and a map of the region . 

THE SITE 

Three quarters of the  BULLA REGIA site is still underground. Only a part of the city has been excavated. Neverthe- less, it presents a range of public and private monuments characterizing Roman cities . The state of conservation ofmany of these monuments ( the theatre for example ) and the originality of others ( houses with an underground level ) explain the interest of the visitors in this site

THE BULLA HOUSES

These are the site's distinctive features.It's impossible today actually, to see such domestic architecture elsewhere .BULLA remains the unique city to have two storied dwellings with one floor underground.This feature can probably be explained by the need for protection against excessive heat in summer and the cold in winter .   

The theatre

The theatre at Bulla Regia is quite small but still in fine condition. The upper rows of seats are gone, as are most of the columns and walls of the stage. But it does transmit a nice image of what the spectacles were here almost 2000 years ago.
Or perhaps not! Bulla Regia was infamous for its loose ways and free attitudes to sexuality. And the theatre was one of the central scenes for this. At the end of the 4th century, Augustine draws lines between the theatre and immoral women.

Among the reasons for seeing the theatre is that you can enter it through its original galleries, structures usually gone from Tunisia's Roman theatres (photo above, right).