stylobate

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  1. noun Architecture The immediate foundation of a row of classical columns. Also called stereobate.

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  • But if a podium is to be built on three sides round the temple, it should be so constructed that its plinths, bases, dies, coronae, and cymatiumare appropriate to the actual stylobate which is to be under the bases of the columns Illustration: FRA GIOCONDO'S IDEA OF THE "SCAMILLI IMPARES From his edition of Vitruvius, Venice, 1511 The level of the stylobate must be increased along the middle by the scamilli impares; for if it is laid perfectly level, it will look to the eye as though it were hollowed a little. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Projections of the stylobate or pedestals Barbaro (1556-1690). —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • The same Bertano (1558 Swellings of the die of the stylobate or bosses in the stylobate or the frieze of the entablature Baldus (1612 Sub-plinths placed under the bases of the columns Perrault (1673-1684). —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • THE TRINITY OF HORIZONTAL VERTICAL AND CURVED LINES The architectural "orders" are divided threefold into pedestal or stylobate, column and entablature; and each of these is again divided threefold: the first into plinth, die and cornice; the second into base, shaft and capital; the third into architrave, frieze and cornice. —  The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
  • The fact that a series of threes and a series of fours mutually conjoin in 12, finds an architectural expression in the Tuscan, the Doric, and the Ionic orders according to Vignole, for in them all the stylobate is four parts, the entablature 3, and the intermediate column 12 (Illustration 74). —  The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
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  1. Latin stȳlobata, from Greek stūlobatēs : stūlos, pillar; see stā- in Indo-European roots + bainein, to walk; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French stylobatc, from Greek στυλοβάτης, the base of a pillar, from στῦλος, a pillar, + βαίνειν, go, advance.
 

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