RT Book
T1 The Neo-Assyrian shield: evolution, heraldry, and associated tactics
A1 De Backer, Fabrice 1980-
A2 Dehenin, Evelyne
LA English
PP Atlanta, GA
PB Lockwood Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/858714183
AB This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material sources are analysed to illustrate practical aspects of defensive weaponry in the ancient Near East in the first millennium B.C. The origins, use, evolution, and manufacture of shields are considered in presenting a typology of these objects. The first study of its kind, this work will appeal to advanced scholars, graduate students, general non-specialists, and re-enactors alike
SN 193704002X
SN 9781937040024