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Artena
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a village of Italy, in the province of Rome, situated at the N.N.W. extremity of the Volscian Mountains; it is 36 m. S.E. by rail, and 24 m. direct from Rome. Pop. (1901) 5016. On the mountain above it (2073 ft.) are the fine remains of the fortifications of a city built in a very primitive style, in cyclopean blocks of local limestone; within the walls are traces of buildings, and a massive terrace which supported some edifice of importance. The name of this city is quite uncertain; Ecetra is a possible suggestion. The modern village, which was called Monte Fortino until 1870, owes its present name to an unwarrantable identification of the site with the ancient Volscian Artena, destroyed in 404 B.C. Another Artena, which belonged to the district of Caere, and lay between it and Veii, was destroyed in the period of the kings,and its site is quite unknown. See T. Ashby and G. J. Pfeiffer in Supplementary Papers of the American School in Rome, i. 87 seq.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Artena'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/artena.html. 1910.
