Under the lantern of the tholus is a basin of water: and around this] a foot and nine inches below the stylobate or pedestal of the interior row of columns, runs a stone platform.
The letters are Greek capitals, written on the stylobate of the southern temple.
On the stylobate of the southern temple is a very boldly carved name, perhaps that of Pertinax, which would give a date towards the end of the second century.
Upon the stylobate of the portal we read the parable of the Wise and foolish Virgins.
In the stylobate are saints, a conspicuous one being S.
The lower part of the stylobate bears lozenge-shapen compartments enclosing roses and lilies.
He especially notices their scandalous proceeding upon taking up one of the great white marble blocks which form the floor or stylobate of the temple.
The stylobate of the western facade could not be placed so low as the eastern because of the door and the necessity of a heavy block three courses high at the south end of the wall.
Had the architect wished equality of height for the eastern and western colonnades he would have been compelled to place the stylobate of the western two courses lower.
Steps or offsets between the stylobateand the columns.
Projection of the stylobatewith hypothesis of embossments on the stylobates and the bases of the columns.
Swellings of the die of the stylobate or bosses in the stylobate or the frieze of the entablature.
But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.
Next, let the cella wall be set up, recessed within the stylobate about one fifth of the breadth thereof, and let a place for folding doors be left in the middle to afford entrance.
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.
The columns upon the stylobates are constructed of a height equivalent to the diameter taken between the outer edges of the stylobate walls, and of a thickness equivalent to one tenth of their height including the capitals and bases.
Upon the translation of the wooden construction to a stone entablature, which resulted in a narrow intercolumniation, the base was given up, and the upper step of the stylobate was regarded as a common plinth.
The dimensions of the octastyle temple were imposing; the edge of the stylobate measured about 30 by 68 m.
Footnote 29: Whether the present condition of the stone of the stylobate still in situ favors this conjecture, is for those on the spot to decide.
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.
The temple, which is entirely of Pentelic marble, is amphiprostyle tetrastyle, with fluted Ionic columns, on a stylobate of three steps; its length is 27 ft.
Doric order and raised on a stylobate of three steps; it had eight columns in front and rear and was surrounded by a peristyle, there being twenty columns on the flanks.
The stylobate had therefore to be similarly curved so that the columns should be all of the same height.
The difficulties they raise are avoided, however, in buildings presenting but two stories, the order being applied to the upper story, upon a high stylobate serving as a basement.
Its stylobate raised it well above the plain, while the steps in front gave meaning and accent to its elevation.
Upon this pavement rested the foundations of the stylobate surrounding the pyramid.
Both stylobate and pavement are now in almost every case concealed by sand and débris, but at the pyramid of Chephren, which is less banked up than the others, traces of them have been proved to exist.
The stylobate of the colonnade belongs to the earlier structure, but the columns originally stood nearer together, eight instead of seven at the ends, and ten on the sides.
For a short distance on the north side the stylobate had been made ready for the building of the colonnade; elsewhere only the preliminary work had been done.
Of those in front two were opposite the corners of the cella, where the edges of the flight of steps come to the stylobate (Fig.
The pedestals of the statues still remain where they were originally placed, on the step in front of the stylobate of the colonnade; the statues themselves, with one exception, have been taken to Naples.
At the middle of the north side (G'-G") both the gutter and the wall under the stylobate were removed when the foundations of the third temple were extended in that direction.
At the right, foundation of the front row of columns of the latest (unfinished) colonnade; then foundation of stylobate of earlier colonnade, with gutter.
Foundation of stylobate of colonnade of first temple, with gutter.
At the time of the eruption the stylobate on which the columns rested, and the gutter in front of it, had been renewed; but only the columns on the north side and a part of those on the west side had been set up again.
The stylobate on which the columns rested was renewed in limestone, and about the same time the Forum was paved and the ledge over the gutter was laid with flags of the same material.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stylobate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
