1) Architectural element
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In classical Greek architecture, a stylobate (στυλοβάτης) is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform on which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the floor of the temple). The platform was built on a leveling course that flattened out the ground immediately beneath the temple. Some methodologies use the word stylob...
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continuous pedestal supporting a row of columns
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• (n.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
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(from the article `order`) There are many separate elements that make up a complete column and entablature. (See the Figure.) At the bottom of the column is the stylobate; this ...
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the top step of the crepidoma. See Classical Architecture.
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Sty'lo·bate noun [ Latin
stylobates ,
stylobata , Greek ...; ... a pillar + ... one that treads, from ... to go.]
(Architecture) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See
Sub-base .
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In architecture a stylobate is the uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported.
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In architecture, this is the platform or foundation for a row of columns. On the Parthenon, the top step of the three-step platform is known as the stylobate. On the stylobate rest the bases of the columns which support the entablature.
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a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, esp. the outermost colonnade.
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