Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
isodomons .
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Examples
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On the vase the wall is "isodomic," built of cut stones in regular layers.
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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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).
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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
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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.
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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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