Artemita
Artemita (
Assyrian Empire[3] and later flourished under the Parthian Empire
.
Though its location is probably near to the confluence of the river Radānu to the
Tiglathpileser III in Assyrian cuneiform sources (second half of 8th century BCE) as Kār Aššur and later as Chalasar (Tabula Peutingeriana, Manî).[3][1] Later it was settled again under the Greeks (Macedonian),[4] but might have been considered Parthian. In AD 31, It welcomed the Arsacid pretender Tiridates II.[5]
Artemita was the birthplace of the historian Apollodorus of Artemita.
See also
References
- ^ a b Isidore of Charax, Parthian Stations, paragraph 2.
- ^ Smith, William (1852). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (Abacaenum – Hytanis). Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown. p. 227.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-944207-02-5.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, (Nat. his. 6.117)
- ^ Tacitus, Annals, 6.41.
External links
- Artemita in Apolloniatis (Encyclopædia Iranica article)
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