Ezra 6:2

And there was found at Achmetha ,.... Which Jarchi and Aben Ezra take to be the name of a vessel in which letters and writings were put for safety; but it was no doubt the name of a place; the Vulgate Latin version has it Ecbatana; and so Josephus F19 Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 6. ; which was the name of a city in Media, where the kings of that country had their residence in the summer time F20 Curtius, l. 5. c. 8. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 6. ; for it has its name from heat F21 Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 618. ; the Persian kings dwelt at Shushan in the winter, and at Ecbatana in the summer F23 Athen. Deipnosophist, l. 12. c. 1. ; hence they are compared by Aelian F24 De Animal. l. 3. c. 13. to cranes, birds of passage, because of their going to and from the above places:

in the palace that is in the province of the Medes , here was found

a roll ; which was the decree of Cyrus, which perhaps he took with him when he went thither:

and therein was a record thus written ; as follows.