Podium
Podium is the name given to the continuous base that forms the lower part of a wall or building. Thus it is used for the side of the substructure on which a temple is raised (Vitr. 3.3), for the marble panelling or dado
round the lower part of a wall (Vitr. 7.4; Plin. Ep. 5.6, 22), for the lower part of the scena-wall in a theatre, on which columns rested (Vitr. 5.7), or for the wall surrounding the arena in an amphitheatre, and forming a basis for the seats of the spectators [AMPHITHEATRUM].
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.