10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ISODOMOUS»
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isodomous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
The masonry is isodomous ; the blocks have evidently been toothed into another
course, which has formed the outer or southern face of the wall. The course is
laid on rubble, without mortar, at a depth of about 3 feet below the surface of the ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1859
2
An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients by ...
These walls present polygonal masonry in the parts built of limestone, and
isodomous masonry in the parts built of freestone. The adoption of polygonal
masonry in cases where limestone is the building material, is obviously caused b
the ...
George Cornewall Lewis, 1862
3
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
(Hamilton) “ The walls are well built in the isodomous style, except a small part of
that which traverses the plains, and they consist either of blue marble or red
trachyte." There are remains of several gateways, and outside of them also
remains ...
4
A History of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae
The masonry was isodomous; the blocks had evidently been toothed into another
course, which has formed the outer or southern face of the wall. The course was
laid on rubble without mortar, at a depth of about 3' below the surface of the soil.
Charles Thomas Newton, R. Popplewell Pullan, 1863
5
An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients
These walls present polygonal masonry in the parts built of limestone, and
isodomous masonry in the parts built of freestone. The adoption of polygonal
masonry in cases where limestone is the building material, is obviously caused
by the ...
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 1862
6
Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the ...
royal portico, where justice was formerly administered," and which, we are told,
occupied the most beautiful part of the city.3 On the west side of the city is a wide
gateway, flanked by massive towers of isodomous, rusticated masonry, the lower
...
7
Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia
The northern part of the wall is very perfect, and contains two or three towers in a
great state of preservation : it is also the best constructed, being probably of a
later date, and purely isodomous. In a few places breaches in the wall had been
...
William John Hamilton, 1984
8
A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ
The masonrv was isodomous ; the blocks had evidently been toothed into
another course, which has formed the outer or southern face of the wall. The
course was laid on rubble without mortar, at a depth of about 3' below the surface
of the soil ...
Charles Thomas Newton, Richard Popplewell Pullan, 1863
9
Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Greek with Notes and a ...
... connected with the main bya low wooded isthmus ofa pleasing and
picturesque appearance.—The Hellenic walls are constructedin thebest
isodomous style. Commencingnear the beachon the west, they continue
inaneasterly direction over ...
10
Travels and Discoveries in the Levant
blocks of isodomous masonry. Chandler considers this a Gymnasium. The
marble has been carried away from this site by travellers, or by peasants from the
neighbouring villages, and nothing is left but the solid Roman masonry, the shell
of ...
Sir Charles Thomas Newton, Sir Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, 1865
