Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The immediate foundation of a row of classical columns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a continuous basement upon which columns are placed to raise them above the level of the ground or a floor; particularly, the uppermost step of the stereobate of a columnar building, upon which rests an entire range of columns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See
sub-base .
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- noun The top
step of thecrepidoma , i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They are without a base, placed instead directly on the "stylobate" - the top step of the colonnade's platform.
The Guardian World News Dale Berning 2011
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But if a podium is to be built on three sides round the temple, it should be so constructed that its plinths, bases, dies, coronae, and cymatiumare appropriate to the actual stylobate which is to be under the bases of the columns.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The main axis of the Temple was about 15 degrees South of East, and the peak of Lepethymnos was due South from the stylobate.
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On the night of Nov. 28th when the North Star passed the meridian we set up the transit on the Temple stylobate and established a true N. and S. line!
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Texier never saw the stylobate for his restoration of the plan is wrong.
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We began excavating on the Acropolis, and the first pit struck the stylobate of the temple, which we soon cleared off, as there was only from one to four feet of debris.
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On top the stylobate of the 7 m tall naiskos, which will have to be placed on top of it.
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View of the current northeast corner of the Northwest Heroon with some of the stylobate blocks of the naiskos back into their place.
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Stones belonging to the stylobate (lowest row of stones) of the naiskos have been studied one by one for cracks that needed consolidation.
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The courses just laid consist of a short and a tall ashlar layer, crowned by a stylobate, bringing the current height of the structure to nearly eight m.
amoristadjective commented on the word stylobate
ex) The floor of the Parthenon
The temple, wrote John Julius Norwich, "Enjoys the reputation of being the most perfect Doric temple ever built. Even in antiquity, its architectural refinements were legendary, especially the subtle correspondence between the curvature of the stylobate, the taper of the naos walls and the entasis of the columns."
May 27, 2008