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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

1) A village in Assyria (Mesopotamia), location unknown. Herodotus relates how the Babylonian queen Nitocris diverted the flow of the EUPHRATES RIVER, in order to build defensive improvements in BABYLON, by digging channels near Ardericca so that the river curved three times—as it still does in his own day (1.185.2).

2) A site in CISSIA, exact location is unknown; perhaps near modern Qirab in western Iran (Forbes 1964, 40–41). Herodotus describes it as a royal stathmos (either a staging post of the ROYAL ROAD or part of a royal estate) and places it 210 stades (about 23 miles) distant from SUSA (6.119.2). DARIUS I forcibly relocated the population of ERETRIA on EUBOEA to Ardericca after the Persians captured their city in 490 BCE. Herodotus notes natural deposits of BITUMEN, salt, and oil near Ardericca and describes how they are collected (6.119.3).

SEE ALSO: Assyrians; Fortifications; Measures; Nitocris (1); Prisoners of War; Rivers