STYLOBATE

Stylobate

In classical Greek architecture, a stylobate is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform on which colonnades of temple columns are placed . The platform was built on a leveling course that flattened out the ground immediately beneath the temple.

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stylobate

Noun

  1. The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.


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