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orthostates
[ awr-thos-tuh-teez ]
Example Sentences
The traces of the Greek wall however show that it reached up five courses above the orthostates while the presence of the καμπὑλη σελἱϛ above proves that this low wall was only a screen-wall and supported nothing.
The distance of the top course which could not have reached above the lintel of the west door was 8¼ feet above the bottom of the orthostates of the west wall.
This is unlikely because the floor level would then have been above the base of the orthostates.
In the western chamber orthostates would have been illogical because they would have been high above the level of the floor, but in the eastern cella, if it had the level of the eastern porch orthostates would have been used.
Since there were wall-blocks behind the orthostates of the south wall in the western cella, one would reasonably expect orthostates behind wall-blocks in the north wall of the eastern cella, provided that cella was at the level of the eastern porch.
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