Ezra 6:2

Modern

And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

Traditional

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

Literal

And was found at Achmetha, in a palace that is in the province of Media, one scroll, and thus was written in it: Memorandum:

Latin

Et inventum est in Ecbatanis, quod est castrum in Medena provincia, volumen unum: talisque scriptus erat in eo commentarius:

Hebrew

English

And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

The fortress at Ecbatana, the king’s summer home, was about 300 miles northeast of Babylon. This suggests Cyrus wrote the scroll in the summer of 538 BC.
Media was a mountainous area north of Persia and east of Assyria. The Kurds, descendants of the Medes, now inhabit this area.
Texts introduced by the term Memorandum were usually summaries listing the main facts of an event for the royal archives (compare Ezra 1:9–10).

Theme notes and profiles

2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Ecbatana: A city in Media where a significant scroll was found Media: An ancient kingdom; part of the Persian Empire