ACHMETHA (Heb. akh me-thaw', station or fortress, Ezra vi:2;
'EKIEfctrava, 2 Mace. ix:3; Judith xi:l; Tob. v:9; Joseph.
,Intiq. x:t 1, 7; xi:4, 6; also, in Greek authors 1.-.Watana
F.Wirava and :IA-ha/anti 'Aygdraval,a city in Media. The
derivation of the name is doubtful ; but Major Rawlinson (Geogr.
Journal, x:134) has left little question that the title was
applied ex clusively to cities having a fortress for the pro
tection of the royal treasures. (1) Jews' Petition. In Ezra we
learn that in the reign of Darius I fystaspes the Jews
petitioned that search might be made in the king's treasure
house at Babylon for the decree which Cyrus had made in favor of
the Jews (Ezra v:17). Search was accordingly made in the record-
office ('house of the rolls'), where the treasures were kept at
Babylon (•i :1) ; but it appears not to have been found there,
as it was eventually discovered 'at Achmetha, in the palace of
the province of the Medes' (vi :2) (2) Septuagint. It is here
worthy of remark that the LXX regarded 'A