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ECBATANA (Agbatana in Aeschylus, Hangmatana in Old Persian, written Agamtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun, mod. Hamadan)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 846 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
ECBATANA (Agbatana in Aeschylus, Hangmatana in Old Persian, written Agamtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun, mod. Hamadan) , the
capital
  of Astyages (Istuvegu), which was taken by Cyrus in the
sixth
  year of Nabonidos (549 B.C.). The Greeks supposed it to be the
capital
  of Media, confusing the Manda, of whom Astyages was king, with the Mada or Medes of Media Atropatene, and ascribed its foundation to Deioces (the Daiukku of the cuneiform
inscriptions
 ), who is said to have surrounded his palace in it with seven concentric walls of different colours. Under the Persian kings,
Ecbatana
 , situated' at the foot of
Mount
  Elvend, became a summer residence; and was afterwards the capital of the
Parthian
  kings. Sir H. Rawlinson attempted to prove that there was a second and older
Ecbatana
  in Media Atropatene, on the site of the modern Takht-i-
Suleiman, midway between Hamadan and Tabriz (J.R.G.S. x. 1841), but the cuneiform texts imply that there was only one city of the name, and Takht-i-Suleiman is the Gazaca of classical geography. The Ecbatana at which Cambyses is said by Herodotus (iii. 64) to have died is probablya blunder for Hamath.
See Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Persia (Eng. trans., 1892) ; M. Dieulafoy, L'Art antique de la Perse, pt. i. (1884) ; J. de
Morgan
 , Mission scientifique en Perse, ii. (1894). See HAMADAN and PERSIA: Ancient History, v. 2. (A. H. S.)


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