orthostates

How to use orthostates in a sentence

• This is unlikely because the floor level would then have been above the base of the orthostates.

  Problems in Periclean Buildings | G. W. Elderkin

• They are firmly founded on the rock and reach up nearly to the base of the orthostates.

  Problems in Periclean Buildings | G. W. Elderkin

• Thus the eastern cella, if it lay at the level of its porch strangely lacked interior orthostates in its north and south walls.

  Problems in Periclean Buildings | G. W. Elderkin

• The are interior walls on either side of a door which in the Erechtheum reached up only five courses above the orthostates.

  Problems in Periclean Buildings | G. W. Elderkin