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‘Buckle up and Fasten that Belt!’. Metal Belts in the Early and Middle Bronze Age
No full textAmong the many finds recovered from Tell el-Dabʿa are five decorated metal sheets, or belts, that were most probably originally sewn onto a piece of leather or textile. Such metal belts are a very special feature attested for the first time in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia. Their occurrence in the archaeological record is limited to tombs that featured several significant finds, including weapons, in their inventory. The grave goods highlight the importance, status and wealth of the interred deceased. The design of metal belts within the distribution area in the Middle Bronze Age is very similar; the decoration, if any, is composed of differing arrangements of concentric circles of varying sizes. According to some Northern Levantine and Anatolian metal figurines, the belts were worn around the waist and buckled at the front. Metal belts were still worn in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, as attested by statues and actual finds.1 The following article adds to a number of publications on metal belts,2 collecting all known attestations dating up to the end of the Middle Bronze Age. The aim of this paper is to determine their distribution range and elucidate their contexts to mirror networks of people sharing a similar cultural background and ancient trade connections. In addition to the elongated metal belts known from Tell el-Dabʿa, possible parts of belts, such as discs and belt fasteners, are also presented in the scope of this article
Innerägäische Beziehungen und auswärtige Kontakte des mykenischen Griechenland in nachpalatialer Zeit
Get PDFLH III C Chronology and Synchronisms III. LH IIIC Late and the Transition to the Early Iron Age. Proceedings of the international workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna February 23rd and 24th, 2007
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A block J-Lanczos method for Hamiltonian matrices. ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
No full textThis work aims to present a structure-preserving block Lanczos-like method. The Lanczos-like algorithm is an effective way to solve large sparse Hamiltonian eigenvalue problems. It can also be used to approximate exp(A)V for a given large square matrix A and a tall-and-skinny matrix V such that the geometric property of V is preserved, which interests us in this paper. This approximation is important for solving systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Our approach is based on a block J-tridiagonalization procedure of a Hamiltonian and skew-symmetric matrix using symplectic similarity transformations
