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Artemita () or Artemita in Apolloniatis was a GreekIsidore of Charax, Parthian Stations, paragraph 2. city in Sittacene, a region in what is now eastern Iraq. Artemita was already settled during the Assyrian EmpireKarlheinz Kessler, Kār Aššur, Chalas(s)ar, Artemita. Assyrische Festung und griechische Polis in der Apolloniatis, in Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze et al. (eds.): Kleine Götter — Große Götter. Festschrift für Dieter Kessler zum 65. Geburtstag. (= Tuna el-Gebel 4). Brose, Haar 2013, S. 273–285 . and later flourished under the Parthian Empire.
Though its location is probably near to the confluence of the river Radānu to the Tigris, on a route along the Tigris northwest of Seleucia. According to Isidore of Charax, it was crossed by the river Sillas (Diyala River) and is located about ca. 90 km from Seleucia, and was already known since Tiglathpileser III in cuneiform sources (second half of 8th century BCE) as Kār Aššur and later as Chalasar (Tabula Peutingeriana, Manî). Later it was settled again under the Greeks (Macedonian),Pliny the Elder, (Nat. his. 6.117) but might have been considered Parthian. In AD 31, It welcomed the Arsacid pretender Tiridates II.Tacitus, Annals, 6.41. Artemita was the birthplace of the historian Apollodorus of Artemita.
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