stylobate

Examples of stylobate in the following topics:

• Temple Architecture in the Greek Archaic Period

  • Most temples were rectilinear in shape and stood on a raised stone platform, known as the stylobates, which usually had two or three stairs.
  • Columns were placed on the edge of the stylobate in a line or colonnade, which was peripteral and ran around the naos (inner chamber that holds a cult statue) and its porches,.
  • Columns were placed on the edge of the stylobate in a line or colonnade, which was peripteral and ran around the (inner chamber that holds a cult statue) and its porches, completely surrounding the temple.
  • These temples had columns which rested directly on the stylobate without a base.
  • A small ramp interrupts the stylobate at the center of the temple's main entrance.

• Architecture in the Greek High Classical Period

  • Furthermore, many temples in the Classical period and beyond are noted for the curvature given to the stylobate of the temple that compensated for optical distortions.
  • However, in this case the colonnade is a single story, and only the columns of the temple (not the stylobate) have entasis.

• Delphi and Greek Treasuries

  • One peristyle of Doric columns (the order used in Archaic architecture) surrounded the perimeter of the stylobate, which rested atop two steps.

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • While the three orders of Greek architecture are most easily recognizable by their capitals, the orders also governed the form, proportions, details, and relationships of the columns, entablature, pediment, and stylobate.