ARQUATA SCRIVIA, village, province of Alessandria, Italy, from which it is 20 miles S.S.E. by rail. Pop. (commune 3,655). It is the junction of the lines to Genoa from Turin and Milan, and was the supply base for British forces in Italy (1917-1919). Two miles north are the ruins of Libarna, a Roman town on the Via Postumia from Genua (Genoa) to Placentia (Piacenza), an amphitheatre, a theatre, streets and houses have been found. The town was rectangular, and build ings found belong to the 1st or 2nd centuries A.D. For full details see Moretti in Not. Scavi, 1914, 113 sqq.; Barocelli, ib. 1922, 362 seq.