apsinthium

Updated: July 9, 2026

Besides these rarer fruits, Assyria has chestnuts, pears, apples, plums, cherries, wild and cultivated, qinces, apricots, melons and filberts. The commonest shrubs are a kind of wormwood the apsinthium of Xenophon which grows over much of the plain extending south of the Khabour and the tamarisk.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.