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- Crepidoma is an architectural term for part of the structure of ancient Gr**** buildings. The crepidoma is the multilevel platform on which the superstructure...
- 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****...
- architecture, a stylobate (Gr****: στυλοβάτης) is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform upon which colonnades of temple columns are placed...
- always subdivided in three zones: the crepidoma, the columns and the entablature. Stereobate, euthynteria and crepidoma form the substructure of the temple...
- 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...
- at the back of the building, the opisthodomos. The building sat on a crepidoma (platform) of three unequal steps, the exterior columns were positioned...
- 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...
- shoe Gr**** κρηπίς, κρηπίδος (krēpís, krēpídos), κρηπίδιον, κρηπίδωμα crepidoma cresc- grow, rise Latin crescere accresce, accrescence, accrescent, accrete...
- 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...
- and architects use the term in discussion of classical architecture. Crepidoma Ancient Gr**** temple Robertson, D. S. (1929). Handbook of Gr**** and Roman...