ARTENA  , 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) 5o16 . 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 be-longed 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 .