ARDICA

Volume I · p. 1093 · 1948 · Christian Archaeology

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ARDICA. - The expression is used particularly in Ravenna to indicate the portico of a church, which is a reduced form of the atrium, as, for example, the a. in front of the basilica of S. Croce founded by Galla Placidia and in S. Vitale. The word itself should be merely the Latinized form of the Greek νάσβηξ, "narthex," because both words mean precisely the same thing.

BIBL.: sources

Agnello, Liber Pontificalis ecclesiae Ravenmatis, ed. Holder-Egger, in MGH, Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum, pp. 200, 4; 204, 1; 330, 13; 18; 341, 38; 344, 39; 346, 34; 348, 32; 352, 21, 31; 360, 16; 373, 28, passages used by P. Verzone, I monumenti dell'alto Medioevo nell'Italia settentrionale, Milan 1943. Engelberto Kirschbaum

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 1849–1850.

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Kirschbaum, Engelberto. “Ardica.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1849–1850. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/ardica.

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Kirschbaum, Engelberto. “Ardica.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1849–1850. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ardica.

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@incollection{ec1_ardica,
  author    = {Kirschbaum, Engelberto},
  title     = {Ardica},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1849--1850},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ardica}
}