stereobate

The lower levels of the crepidoma are termed the "stereobate".

Pines of Nowhere and Stereobate open tonight at 9; call for admission price (Pareles).

The superstructure of the building (stereobate and stylobate, columns, walls, and entablature) were set on the euthynteria.

"A ledge of 0.30 meters in width projects from the Treasury's stereobate along its south side only, and that this ledge helps to support the Marathon base.

The steps up to the apse (semicircle where the altar is located) are analogous to the stereobate and stylobate of the temple (the floor of a temple).

According to Penrose, the rise of the curved stylobate of the Parthenon had already been obtained in the stereobate carrying it, long before the problem of bedding the columns on the curve had arisen.

Some methodologies use the word stylobate to describe only the topmost step of the temple's base, while stereobate is used to describe the remaining steps of the platform beneath the stylobate and just above the leveling course.