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 * at Achmetha.  or, at Ecbatana, or, in a coffer.
   [achmta [,] probably from the Persian
   [chm,] {kham,} "a house for a summer residence," with a
   prefix, [a,] {aleph,} and the Chaldee termination [ta,]
   {tha,} most likely denotes Ecbatana, as the Vulgate and
   Josephus read, the summer residence of the Persian monarchs.
   It was situated in a mountainous region at the foot of mount
   Orontes, or Jasonius, according to Ammianus, on the southern
   confines of Media and Persia, and according to Pliny, 750
   miles from Seleucia the Great, 20; miles from the Caspian
   passes, 450; miles from Susa, and the same from Gaz(910a)   Atropatene, and in lat. 37; degrees 45; min., long. 88; degrees,
   according to Ptolemy.  The building of the city is ascribed to
   Semiramis by Diodorus, but to Deioces by Eusebius, (in Chron.
   1.1,) and Herodotus, who states that it was surrounded by
   seven walls, strong and ample, built in circles one within
   another, rising each above each by the height of their
   respective battlements; each being distinguished by a
   different colour, the first white, the second black, the third
   purple, the fourth blue, the fifth orange, the sixth plated
   with silver, and the seventh with gold.  The largest of these
   was nearly the extent of Athens, i.e., 200; furlongs, according
   to Dion Chrysostom; but Diodorus Siculus states the
   circumference of Ecbatana to be 250; furlongs.  Within the
   inner circle stood the king's palace and the royal treasury,
   so much celebrated for its splendour and riches by Polybius.
   It is highly probable, as D'Anville and Major Rennel suppose,
   that the present Hamadan, whose ruins attest its former
   splendour, occupies the site of Ecbatana.  It is situated in
   Al Gebal, at the foot of the lofty mountain Alwend, about 80
   leagues from Ispahan, and also from Bagdad.

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