Le message des représentations figurées sur les sarcophages et les monuments funéraires de la Numidie antique

Abstract EN

The funerary art in Numidia has been influenced by the classical mythology and symbolic scenes that aimed to clarifying idea or religious belief, stuck out people of North Africa.

This art explains to us the funeral topics that occupy human thought from the dawn of the era to the beginning of the Christian period, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it reflects the social status of owner’s the monument.

In general, the funerary art surch as muses and Asclépios deity reflect the afterlife creed of reaching happy eternity and the immortality of the contended soul.