الأسد و دلالاته في المغرب القديم

الملخص EN

The The lion is among the most prominent wild animals that lived in ancient Maghreb during the past ages and it presented a threat to the population; specially in the regions near forests and woodlands and for protecting themselves and their animals, they used to hunt them by different means either to kill them to get rid of their dangers or use them in sport and entertainment or for exporting to Rome and displaying them in theaters included stages.

And from the other hand, the lion's presence was wide in the Punic and African religious creeds (the Numidians and the Moors), for it was to them an important sacred animal related with some of the local and foreign Gods, and it became a symbol of the power, the courage, the political authority and the eternity, this what is proved by its images on coffins, shrines and at the palaces' gates entrances.