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orthostat Archæol.|ˈɔːθəʊstæt|
Also -state |-steɪt|.
[ad. Gr. ὀρθοστάτ-ης upright shaft, pillar, building stone laid with the longest edge vertical.]
An upright stone or slab, either forming part of a building or set in the ground as a monument.
[1909A. Marquand Greek Archit. ii. 67 Walls of temples and other buildings were usually provided with both base and crown. The orthostatai were set off from the vertical face of the wall.., and, even when the entire wall was covered with stucco, formed a more or less visible base.] 1926D. G. Hogarth Kings of Hittites ii. 26 (caption) Orthostats of south gateway. 1933Antiquity VII. 222 The orthostates rest against pairs of jambs kept apart by sills rising to about half the height of the chambers. 1950G. E. Daniel Prehist. Chamber Tombs Eng. & Wales iii. 34 Megaliths used as orthostats, i.e. set in the ground and standing upright. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments 419 The actual remains of Geometric temples would lead us to expect a few courses of undressed stones (possibly with an outer facing of orthostats) supporting a wall of crude brick. 1970Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 454/1 The practice of setting a series of stone slabs, called orthostates, at the bottom of a wall below the mud-brick upper parts became common in the Assyrian period and was seen again in Hittite architecture. 1972Y. Yadin Hazor ii. vii. 72 The most important of these is a small orthostat of a lion... The lion is clearly an entrance-jamb orthostat. 1974F. Emery Oxfordshire Landscape i. 36 They, or their close followers the Beaker people, also built circles of standing stones..and orthostats. |