# Sittace

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'''Sittace''' or '''Sittake''' or '''Sittakê''' ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): {{lang|grc|Σιττάκη}}, [Ptol.](/source/Ptolemy) vi. 1. § 6; [Akkadian](/source/Akkadian_language) '''Sattagū'''<ref>Kessler, K. 2002, "Sittake, Sittakene, Sattagū" in ''Altorientalische Forschungen'' 29, 238-248</ref>), was an ancient city, the capital of ancient [Sittacene](/source/Sittacene), in [Assyria](/source/Assyria), at the southern end of this province, on the road between [Artemita](/source/Artemita) and [Susa](/source/Susa). ([Strabo](/source/Strabo) xvi. p. 744.) It is called '''Sitta''' ({{lang|grc|Σίττα}}) by [Diodorus](/source/Diodorus) (xvii. 110). [William Smith](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)) believed that Diodorus's [Sambana](/source/Sambana) also referred to Sittace.

The origin of the city's name may be found in [Babylon](/source/Babylon)ian tablets referring to the polity "URU.Sattagû" which may be a translation or approximation of "people of [Sattagydia](/source/Sattagydia)", a [Persian](/source/ancient_Persia) [satrapy](/source/satrapy). [https://www.livius.org/sao-sd/sattagydia/sattagydia.html]

The district of Sittacene appears to have been called in later times "Apolloniatis" (Strab. xi. p. 524). 

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