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Definition of Stylobate
1. n. The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Definition of Stylobate
1. Noun. (context: Classical Greek architecture) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stylobate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stylobate
Literary usage of Stylobate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"Individual stylobate blocks along the flanks have lengths of 1 .338 m., ...
The 0.015 in. difference between east and west stylobate depths signals ‘the ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"Swellings of the die of the stylobate or bosses in the stylobate or the frieze of
... Projection of the stylobate with hypothesis of embossments on the aty- ..."
3. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"Swellings of the die of the stylobate or bosses in the stylobate or the frien of
... Projection of the stylobate with hypothesis of embossments on the sty- ..."
4. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"Formerly the high stylobate was buried in the ground; but this was at last made
visible by works commenced by the French, and finished in 1830. ..."
5. The Southeast Building, the Twin Basilicas, the Mosaic House by Saul S. Weinberg (1960)
"0.76 m. above the top of the stylobate of the portico. COLONNADE When the portico
of the Southeast Building was excavated in 1915, part of the southern end ..."
6. The Dead Cities of Sicily: A Guide-book to the Remains of Ancient Art in the by Hans von Pernull, Antonio Rivela (1905)
"Nothing remains of the ancient edifice except the steps of the stylobate, the
inferior portion of six columns ort r_ ..."
7. A Description of the Trajan Column by John Hungerford Pollen (1874)
"In the full- sized bas-reliefs of the stylobate the chain work can be made out,
and in some of the bas-reliefs of the arch of Trajan, now on the arch of ..."
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