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TO ARTEMITA, OR KHAN-E-KEEN.
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to, mention is made of a city called Artemita, of which, from the
correspondence of relative distance and local feature, I should
conceive this place of Khan-e-Keen to be the site.
Strabo speaks of Artemita as a celebrated city. Isidore of
Charax says, that it was seated on a river called the Silla. Its
distance from Ctesiphon and Seleucia is given respectively by
Isidore of Charax, at fifteen schcenes, in " Stathmis Parthicis
by Strabo at 500 stadia ; and by the Theodosian Tables at seventy-
one Roman miles. According to Isidore it was a Greek city, and
its name is thought to have been derived from the Greek term
ccgrsfATig, or aqrsfjuoi, signifying a healthy and advantageous situa
tion ; though it had another name among the people of the
country, which the same author writes Chalasar.
It will be seen that Khan-e-Keen is seated on the river
Silwund, which may well be the Silla of antiquity ; that its distance
corresponds, with sufficient accuracy, to that assigned to Artemita
from Seleucia and Ctesiphon. # And that no place could more
justly deserve a name implying a healthy and advantageous
situation .f
M. D'Anville says, " Artemita was a Greek city, on a stream
whose name, which is sometimes written Silla, should rather be
called Delas, the modern form whereof is Diala."J We have
already seen that this river has been as frequently confounded
with other streams in antiquity, as the Elwund has been in the
latest Itineraries of our own times, and in each case the confusion
has given rise to other errors.
* There is no measuring off the exact distance of this place on Kinnier's Map, as in it its
name is altogether omitted. In a route from Sennah by Kermanshah to Bagdad, by Mr.
Webb, attached to the geographical memoir for the illustration of this map, Khanakee is
stated to be eighteen miles from Kuzzelroobaut (or Kesrabad) and this measures exactly sixty
miles, the distance of Dastagherd from Ctesiphon, making the whole seventy-eight.
t Its present name is formed of a Caravanseria, and ^ collecting together, adjust
ing; repairing, composing; mending, forming, framing, adapting, &c.— Richardson s Arabic
Dictionary, vol.1, p. 745.
X Compendium of Ancient Geography. English Edit. 8vo. vol. 2, p. 469.
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