Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. architectural elements
7. [structural elements and components for structural elements]
8. structural elements
9. [supporting and resisting elements]
10. posts (structural elements)
11. [posts by location or context]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by specific context
6. architectural elements
7. structural elements and components for structural elements
8. structural elements
9. enclosing structural elements
10. roofs and roof components
11. roof components
12. roof frame components
13. vertical roof frame components

Anotations

Scope note:

Vertical architectural wall elements comprising wooden posts; used often, but not exclusively, in interior roof construction. For posts carried on corbels or other elements partway up the wall in open-timber roof trusses, use "pendant posts"; see also "crown posts." For solid supports of masonry or another material that extend the full height of the wall, and that are designed to sustain vertical pressure, use "piers (supporting elements)."