Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Artemita 1.

​ ARTEMITA. 1. (Ἀρτέμιτα, Strab. xi. p. 519, xvi. p. 744 ; Ptol. vi. 1. § 6; Steph.; Isid. Char. p. 5; Artemita, Plin. vi. 26; Tab. Peutinger.), a city of Assyria, or perhaps more strictly of Babylonia (Strab. xi. p. 519), in the district of Apolloniatis (Isid. Char.); according to Strabo (xvi. p. 744) 500 stadia (Tab. Peuting. 71 mill.) E. of Seleucia, and 8,000 stadia N. of the Persian Gulf. (Strab. xi. p. 519.) According to Tacitus (vi. 41) it was a Parthian town, in which Stephanus (on the authority of Strabo, though that geographer does not say so) coincides with him. Pliny (vi. 26) places it wrongly in Mesopotamia. It was situated on a river called the Sillas. The modern Sherbán is supposed to occupy its site.

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