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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as isodomons.

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Examples

  • On the vase the wall is "isodomic," built of cut stones in regular layers.

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • This wall was built of mortared rubble, against an outer face of limestone ashlars in a pseudo-isodomic arrangement (i.e. with alternating higher and lower courses of ashlars).

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Report 3 2003

  • These walls are made of isodomic layers of elongated ashlars with drafted edges, a stone surface treatment that was very popular in early Imperial Sagalassos.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 2 2003

  • During January-July 1997, excavations brought to light four ancient rectangular cuttings that contained the remains of a complex of four or five poros subterranean funerary structures, with a particularly narrow longitudinal plan and isodomic walls, two courses high, skillfully built with monumental blocks.

    Fallen Heroes: The Excavations at 35 Salaminos Street 2000

  • In a style of this kind the stones of a wall have, all of them, the same dimension, and this dimension is determined by the general plan of the building; or else, as in the kind of work which is called 'pseud-isodomic,' the very irregularity of the courses is governed by a law of symmetry.

    History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

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