. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . arious parts of the kingdomas when it was the Median capital.^ In the Babylonian in-scriptions it appears as Agamatanu.^ The Greek writer Ctesias,who knew Persian well, renders the name correctly as Aghatana(^Ay^uTava), although most of the Greeks called it Ekhdtdna(^EiK^drava), with initial jE, not A, and giving to the penulti-mate vowel the wrong quantity (a for a). 1 Pahlavi Hamatdn, Bd. 12. 12 ; less important places, including Tabriz,22. 6. Urumiah, Kazvin, Teheran, Isfahan, 2 OP
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . arious parts of the kingdomas when it was the Median capital.^ In the Babylonian in-scriptions it appears as Agamatanu.^ The Greek writer Ctesias,who knew Persian well, renders the name correctly as Aghatana(^Ay^uTava), although most of the Greeks called it Ekhdtdna(^EiK^drava), with initial jE, not A, and giving to the penulti-mate vowel the wrong quantity (a for a). 1 Pahlavi Hamatdn, Bd. 12. 12 ; less important places, including Tabriz,22. 6. Urumiah, Kazvin, Teheran, Isfahan, 2 OP. Hg^mHan^, Bh. 2. 76, Kermanshah, and other cities known77, from ham, together, and gam, in antiquity. to go, Co-ventry (?). Bar- * Babylonian A-ga-ma-ta-nu, Bh. tholomae, Air. ^Vh. p. 1744, regards the 60, and Nabonid, Annaleninschr. Av. etymology as uncertain. 2. 3, 4. Cf. also Bang, Melanges 3 From the top of the Musallah, Charles de Harlez, p. 8, Leiden, 1896 ;for example, it is possible to count and Streck, Arinenien und Westper-roadways leading to twelve more or sien, in Zt. f. Assyr. 15, Persian Cats at the Mission House, Hamadan A FAMOUS CITY OF OLD 151 The antiquity of these allusions to the name shows howancient the history of the city really is. Its existence as earlyas the twelfth century before Christ is believed to be vouchedfor by the mention of Amadana in an Assyrian inscription ofTiglath-Pileser I (c. 1100),i and we certainly have in-scriptional evidence to prove that it must have existed in thetime of Ramman-nirari, husband of Semiramis (Sammuramat),^or, according to some authorities, before the end of the ninthcentury Ctesias, who was court physician to ArtaxerxesMnemon for seventeen years ( 416-399), and well acquaintedwith Persian traditions, says that when Semiramis came toEcbatana, which is situated in a low, level plain, she built apalace and bestowed more care and attention upon it than shehad done at any other place; and Ctesi
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