Les tortues neo-assyriennes
The author intends here to examine the question of the Neo Assyrian siege machines on the basis of both classical and Mesopotamian textual and iconographical sources, aiming at an attempt at reconstruction, on the technical level, of these machines. It is not the purpose of this paper to set the Ass...
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| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Lenguaje: | Francés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:118598 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/118598 |
| Nivel de acceso: | Acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Machines de siège Tortues-bélières Tortues-trépan Neo-assyriennes Bélier Lachish Mari Bois Bottes de roseau Athénée Apollodore de Damas Anonyme de Byzance Vitruve Ashurnasirpal II Salmanazar Tiglath-Pileser III Sennachérib |
| Sumario: | The author intends here to examine the question of the Neo Assyrian siege machines on the basis of both classical and Mesopotamian textual and iconographical sources, aiming at an attempt at reconstruction, on the technical level, of these machines. It is not the purpose of this paper to set the Assyrian siege engines in the wider Near eastern historical context of siege warfare, since this has already been done by many scholars during those past years. He therefore mainly tackles the topic of the construction of the structure of the engine, of the means of covering it, and eventually deals with the way the ram itself could have worked. The author concludes that the N-A tortoises should be compact enough to provide them sufficient mobility in order to climb up a siege ramp. They also should be technologically simple enough to be designed and assembled by a relatively unskilled labor |
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