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The city is now known as Hamadan and is located 400 km southwest of Tehran , in modern day Iran (Persia). The Greeks supposed it to be the capital of Media , and ascribed its foundation to Deioces (the ''Daiukku'' of the Cuneiform inscriptions), who is said to have surrounded his palace in it with seven concentric walls of different colours. Under the Persian kings, Ecbatana, situated at the foot of Mount Elvend, became a summer residence. Later, it became the capital of the Parthia n kings. H Rawlinson attempted to prove that there was a second and older Ecbatana in ''Media Atropatene'' on the site of the modern Takht-i-Suleiman , but the cuneiform texts imply that there was only one city of the name, and ''Takht-i Suleiman'' is the Gazaca of classical geography. Ecbatana was the main mint of the Parthians, it produced Drachm , tetradrachm, and assorted Bronze denominations. Ecbatana/Hamadan (Iran) is not to be confused with Ecbatana/Hamath (Syria) where Cambyses II is supposed to have died according to Herodotus . REFERENCES
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