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Stylobate
The top step of a temple platform, on which the columns stand.
See also: Crepidoma
Rules that use the word
The stylobate rises in the middle. Do not lay the stylobate dead level: raise it gently toward the middle of each side, for a perfectly flat platform looks to the eye as if it sagged.
The Parthenon’s ratio of 4 : 9. Let one simple ratio govern the whole: at the Parthenon the lower diameter is to the axial spacing, the width of the stylobate to its length, and the height of the order to the width of the front, all very nearly as 4 is to 9.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Temple, The Classical World.
A feature of Ancient Greek architecture.
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