stylobate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stylobate
1555–65; < Latin stȳlobatēs, stȳlobata < Greek stȳlobátēs, equivalent to stȳlo- stylo- 2 + -batēs ( ba- (base of baínein to step) + -tēs agent suffix)
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Steps or offsets between the stylobate and the columns.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The column, simply set upon the stylobate, without base or pedestal, was from four to six diameters in height, with twenty flutes, having a capital of half a diameter.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements by John Lord
They had, however, no base, but were supported by a continuous stylobate.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
The fluted columns, lifted up on the marble stylobate which has been trodden by the feet of Pericles and Phidias, are huge in girth, and rise to a height of between thirty and forty feet.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens
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