Home » By Authors » D » De Backer, Fabrice L’atelier d’un batteur d’armures à Tell Ahmar Fabrice DE BACKER. — The artefacts discovered in excavations, with the textual and visual evidence, provide the support for a series of deductions on the manufacture of a scale-armour… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / « Shamshi-Ilu Went to Camp along with Captain Bassing ...». La formation militaire des recrues néo-assyriennes Fabrice DE BACKER. — This paper deals with the recruitment and training of the Neo-Assyrian troops between the 8th and the 7th century B.C. for a short military campaign. The basics of the military planning for the operations and of the warfare intruction provided to the troops at their « Boot Camp » will be reviewed according to the sources available at hand… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi. Une base de réflexion pour le rituel funéraire royal néo‑assyrien Fabrice DE BACKER. — This paper proposes a hypothetic reconstruction of the funeral rituals employed to bury the King during the Neo-Assyrian period… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Un plastron d’époque néo-assyrienne F. DE BACKER. — The following study analyses the so-called “irtu” discs worn by some soldiers related to the Neo-Assyrian army as its military personal or its opponents… Details | Volume | Other papers 9,50 € Evolution of the Scale Armour in the Ancient Near East, Aegean and Egypt. An Overview from the Origins to the Pre-Sargonids F. DE BACKER. — À première vue, l’armure d’écailles qui était utilisée au Proche-Orient ancien, en Égypte et dans le monde égéen contemporains n’a encore jamais été étudiée ou survolée en tant qu’ensemble… Details | Volume | Other papers 9,50 € Cruelty and Military Refinements F. DE BACKER. — La mutilation et la fragmentation des corps des ennemis vaincus appartenaient aux techniques de combat néo-assyriennes… Details | Volume | Other papers 9,50 € Notes sur certains sapeurs néo-assyriens F. DE BACKER. — The goal of this paper is to provide the reader with some clues about a specific kind of soldier usually represented on the neo-assyrian visual documents in the depictions of siege-combats… Details | Volume | Other papers 9,50 €