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Inarchitecture, asocle is a shortplinth used to support apedestal,sculpture, orcolumn. In English, the term tends to be most used for the bases for rather small sculptures, with plinth or pedestal preferred for larger examples.[1] This is not the case in French.
In the field ofarchaeology this term refers to a wall base, frequently of stone, that supports the upper part of the wall, which is made of a different material – frequentlymudbrick. This was a typical building practice inancient Greece, resulting in the frequent preservation of the plans of ancient buildings only in their stone-built lower walls, as at the city ofOlynthos.[2] A very early example is the two-storey fortifiedHouse of the Tiles atLerna in thePeloponnese, built of mud-brick over a stone socle, with much use of wood, and clay for the floors and asstucco for the walls. This dates to the EarlyHelladic II, of four thousand years ago.
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In Pompeian interior painting styles, the socle is the lowest zone of wall painting in all four style periods.[3]
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