ACHMETA. Ezra vi. 2, "There was found at Achmeta a roll." — Achmeta is here the same with Ecbatana, the royal city, where, in the palace, the rolls were kept. So the Vulgate, which reads Ecbatanis ; and 1 Esdras vi. 23 ; also Josephus, Antiq. xi. 4— 6.