Histories

The Delians had now returned to their island, and Datis set the image in the temple, instructing the Delians to carry it away to Theban Delium, on the coast opposite +Chalcis [23.6083,38.4667] (Perseus) Chalcis.

Datis gave this order and sailed away, but the Delians never carried that statue away; twenty years later the Thebans brought it to +Delium (deserted settlement), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Delium by command of an oracle.

When Datis and Artaphrenes reached Asia (continent)Asia in their voyage, they carried the enslaved Eretrians inland to Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa.

Before the Eretrians were taken captive, king Darius had been terribly angry with them for doing him unprovoked wrong; but when he saw them brought before him and subject to him, he did them no harm, but settled them in a domain of his own called Ardericca in the Cissian land; this place is two hundred and ten stadia distant from Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa, and forty from the well that is of three kinds.

Asphalt and salt and oil are drawn from it in the following way: a windlass is used in the drawing, with half a skin tied to it in place of a bucket; this is dipped into the well and then poured into a tank; then what is drawn is poured into another tank and goes three ways: the asphalt and the salt congeal immediately; the oil,[*](Petroleum.) which the Persians call rhadinace, is dark and evil-smelling.