Stylobate Definition

stīlə-bāt
noun
A continuous base or coping for a row of columns.
Webster's New World

(Classical Greek architecture) The top step of the crepidoma, i.e. the platform upon which the superstructure of the building is erected.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Stylobate

Noun

Singular:
stylobate
Plural:
stylobata, stylobates

Origin of Stylobate

  • Latin stȳlobata from Greek stūlobatēs stūlos pillar stā- in Indo-European roots bainein to walk gwā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin stylobata, from Ancient Greek στυλοβάτης (stulobatÄ“s), from στῦλος (stÅ«los, “pillar") + βαίνειν (bainein, “to go, to walk").

    From Wiktionary

Stylobate Sentence Examples

  • The temple is entirely of Pentelic marble, except the foundations and lowest step of the stylobate, which are of Peiraic stone, and the zophoros of the cella, which is in Parian marble.

  • The peristyle, if we compare the measurements of the stylobate with those of the drums built into the wall of the Acropolis, may be concluded to have consisted of six Doric columns at the ends and twelve at the sides.

  • With the exception of the foundations and two lower steps of the stylobate, it was entirely of Pentelic marble, and possessed 104 Corinthian columns, 56 ft.

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