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- In classical Gr**** architecture, crepidoma (Ancient Gr****: κρηπίδωμα) is the foundation of one or more teps on which the superstructure of a building...
- architecture, a stylobate (Gr****: στυλοβάτης) is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform upon which colonnades of temple columns are placed...
- was constructed just slightly large enough to cover the crepidoma of the old temple. The crepidoma is the slightly raised structure at the base of a Gr****...
- always subdivided in three zones: the crepidoma, the columns and the entablature. Stereobate, euthynteria and crepidoma form the substructure of the temple...
- at the back of the building, the opisthodomos. The building sat on a crepidoma (platform) of three unequal steps, the exterior columns were positioned...
- The well-preserved peristasis of six by thirteen columns stands on a crepidoma of four steps (measuring 39.42 m × 16.92 m (129.3 ft × 55.5 ft), and 8...
- measuring 43 m × 20.85 m (141.1 ft × 68.4 ft), mounted on a four-step crepidoma and having 6 x 13 columns; it dates to around 430 BC. It was built over...
- them was kept to make their existence obvious. Lifting bosses of the crepidoma (base) of the Segesta temple, Sicily Levering bosses left on Inca walls...
- exterior of the building. Every temple rested on a masonry base called the crepidoma, generally of three steps, of which the upper one which carried the columns...
- temples usually consist of a base with stairs at each edges (known as crepidoma), a cella (or naos) with a cult statue in it, columns, an entablature...