orthostates
Americannoun
plural
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The παραστἁδεϛ are interior walls on either side of a door which in the Erechtheum reached up only five courses above the orthostates.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
They are firmly founded on the rock and reach up nearly to the base of the orthostates.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
He placed the threshold above the bottom of the orthostates, and the position of this threshold may have determined the high position of the orthostates of the western wall.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
The surface of the orthostate is in part well preserved but orthostates at the place of contact with interior walls have nowhere left any indication of such contact—no anathyrosis.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
In the temple as built, the eastern pair were carried up only five courses above the orthostates, i.e. as high as the partition-walls.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)
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