Modern technical term of scholarship devoted to ancient architecture; it describes the krepidoma observable in some Doric peripteral temples from the middle of the 6th cent. BC (e.g. temple of Apollo of Corinth = earliest evidence; Aphaea Temple of Aegina; Parthenon; great temple of Segesta) and rarely also in Ionic buildings (e.g. temple of Apollo of Didyma) -- and resulting from this -- the arrangement ascending to the entablature. This phenomenon mentioned by Vitruvius (3,4,5), as well as the inclination, the entasis and the angle contraction of the …