The lion-bull iconography during the Achaemenian period of ancient Persia has generated different theories of astronomicaland seasonal events besides the suggestions that it could be the symbol of the time cycle of the day, with lion representingthe sun and bull the night. However, the present paper draws the reader’s attention to the hitherto unexplored angle ofzoology to understand physiognom...

and Middle Formative (ca. 1200-500 B.C.) Olmec symbol system is the focus of the present study.1 We have identified a series of symbols in largeand small-scale stone objects and ceramics representing perforators and a zoomorphic supernatural associated with bloodletting. While aspects of this iconography are comparable to later Classic Lowland Maya iconography of bloodletting, its deployment in...

The imagery of the vision valley dry bones (Ezek 37. 1–14) still fascinates theologians and historians religion with its exegetical liturgical significance. Rarely represented in medieval art, iconography this singular topic related to Last Judgment deserves closer attention on part art historians. aim present contribution is remedy situation by offering an analysis main pictorial representatio...

In the recent years the East-Christian iconographical art works have been digitized providing a large volume of data. The need for effective classification, indexing and retrieval of iconography repositories was the motivation of the design and development of a systemized ontological structure for description of iconographical art objects. This paper presents the ontology of the East-Christian ...

The House of Kyrios Leontis in Nysa Scythopolis (Beth-Shean) was partially excavated by two expeditions and at different times, the mosaic floors have been published only preliminary publications. Two halls were discovered complex. first hall is decorated with a pavement three panels: Homeric story Odysseus Sirens; beribboned parrots surrounding dedication inscription; Nile god, Nilometer, city...

The Christian miracle tales strongly support the identification of Sts. Cosmas and Damian as doctors. The most famous of the saints' posthumous miracles, is that of the Black Leg. The main source of this story is the Golden Legend by Jacobus da Varagine, collection of fanciful hagiographies compiled in the 13th century. Saints Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplanted the black leg of the Eth...

In the Illustrations in Roll and Codex (1947), Kurt Weitzmann developed a methodological apparatus for studying Byzantine medieval narrative book illumination. His approach had two important features: an evolutionary typology that paid attention to strategies painter chose presenting story comparative analysis observed stories illustrations relation their textual source. The focus of this paper...

This paper presents new protocols for Byzantine state machine replication and Byzantine agreement in the synchronous and authenticated setting. The PBFT state machine replication protocol tolerates f Byzantine faults in an asynchronous setting using n = 3f + 1 replicas. We improve the Byzantine fault tolerance to n = 2f + 1 by utilizing the synchrony assumption. Our protocol also solves synchro...