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the usual type of hired house from the time of the emperors with
an inner central courtyard and open tabernae within a portico
towards the street. Perhaps the house was a granary.
Ardeaf’7 At Ardea Italian and American archaeologists have con-
ducted excavations since the beginning of the present century.
The most important of these is the uncovering of the temple ruin
of the lower town by E. Stefani (1926) and the Temple of Juno
on the acropolis, excavated in 1930. Italien archaeologists have
further made other investigations and topographical studies on
the place. The results of all these investigations and excavations
in certain cases have not yet been published; other investigations
have been propounded in a large number of articles and publica-
tions.
The Swedish work under the leadership of A. Boethius, as-
sisted by E. Holmberg, E. Wikén, and A. Andrén, was directed
towards several points. The topographical investigations were
continued and supplemented by thorough analyses and surveys
of walls and town-plans and by an examination of the necro-
polises of the town. Thus the history of the town and its temples
from about 550 to the first century B. C. was elucidated and
established. Very near the temple in the lower town, exposed by
the Italian archaeologists, the Swedes further excavated a basilica
from the time about 100 B. C., next to that at Pompeii the oldest
basilica of Italy. The building could be reconstructed with its en-
67 Introductory articles on the Swedish investigations by Boethius, in
the Boll. Studi Mediterranei, June 1930, p. 8; June—July 1931, p. 1;
Feb.—March 1932, p. 2. The terra-cotta sculptures from the Italian
excavations published by A. Andrén, in the Boll. S. M. Aug. Sept
1932; —, Terracotta di Ardea, in the Corolla Arch. (1932), p. 98;
—, Terracotta decorative e figurate di Ardea in the Boll. S. M. 1934,
p. 22. Papers on the basilica published by E. Holmberg, Nuovi scavi
in Ardea, in the Boll. S. M. Aug.—Sept. 1932, p. 1, and E. Wikén,
Commentario archeologico della pianta di Ardea, in the Boll. S- M.
1934, p. 1; —, En nyfunnen repuhlikansk basilika i Ardea, in the
Konsth. Tidskrift 1935, p. 10. A paper on the investigations of the
necropolis of the town was published by Boéthius, Tre kammargravar
invid Ardea, in the Arkeologiska Studier (1932), p. 262. A summary
of the American, Italian, and Swedish investigations at Ardea is
found in Ardeatina, in the Apophereta Gotoburgensia Vilelmo Lund-
ström, Göteborg 1936, p. 346. Cf. Ákerström, in the Eranos XLI
(1933), p. 172, and Boéthius, in the Atti II0 Congresso Nazionale
Studi Romani I 1931, p. 31.