Oratha
Ὄραθα
Oratha (Ὄραθα), a city described by Stephanus B. (s. v.), as in the district of Mesene, on the Tigris. As he does not state in which Mesene he supposes it to have been, it is impossible now to identify it. Some commentators have supposed that it is the same as Ur of the Chaldees.
It is, however, more likely that it is Ur castellum Persarum
(Amm. Marc. 25.8), now believed to be represented by the ruins of Al-Hathrr; or, perhaps, the Ura of Pliny (5.24. s. 21).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.