Stereobate Biography, Stereobate Videos, Stereobate Similar artist, Stereobate Discography, Stereobate Tags
You are in : HOME : S : Stereobate :Biography Stereobate
with stylobate at top, in the Doric Temple of Segesta, Sicily]], Nīmes,
illustrating the Roman version of a stylobate]]In classical Greek
architecture, a stylobate (Greek: ??????????) 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 stylobate to describe only the topmost
step of the temple's base, while stereobate is used to describe the
remaining steps of the platform beneath the stylobate and just above the
leveling course. Others use the term to refer to the entire platform.
The stylobate was often designed to relate closely to the dimensions of
other elements of the temple. In Greek Doric temples, the length and width
of the stylobate were related, and in some early Doric temples the column
height was
