 The discovery of 1881 was identified in 1901, by Paul Gauckler as belonging to a basilica, however, it is not exhaustively searched for budgetary reasons.The church may have been built atop the foundations of a demolished pagan temple.The site was considered important by the excavators of the campaigns in 1904–1905, and focusing on this building allowed the discovery of about forty mosaics, the main one is the mosaic of martyrs which led to a major controversy between Gauckler and Dr. Louis Carton , recovering a conflict between the Antiquities Department and the Archaeological Society of Sousse.