Apamea in the Mesene

Apamea was an ancient city in southern Babylonia , in the Charakene . It is therefore usually referred to by ancient writers as Apamea, Mesene. It is about a foundation of Antiochus I , who named the place after his mother Apame . The place was on the Tigris , at the point where the river divided into two arms, and was thus surrounded by water. It is said that there were strong dams here, which were also used militarily against attacks by the Parthians when Apamea was part of the Charakene. The city is perhaps identical to Harpanya and Neharpania, which is mentioned in the Talmud . It is probably the Arabic Fam as-Silh. The town was near another with the same name.

Ancient sources

Pliny the Elder : Natural History , VI, 129 and 146
Arrian : Parthica , XVI, 69-70

Individual evidence

^ Cohen, GM: The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India, (Hellenistic Culture and Society 54), Berkeley u. a. 2013, p. 125.

literature

Monika Schuol : The characters. A Mesopotamian kingdom in the Hellenistic-Parthian period . Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07709-X , ( Oriens et Occidens 1), (also: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1998), p. 281.

[1] Cohen, GM: The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India, (Hellenistic Culture and Society 54), Berkeley u. a. 2013, p. 125.