Back نصب بيكولي Arabic پەیکوڵی CKB Paikuli-Inschrift German سنگنوشته پایکولی Persian Inscription de Paikuli French Inscrição de Paiculi Portuguese Паикули натпис Serbian Paikuliinskriften Swedish Paikuli Yazıtı Turkish
The Paikuli inscription (Kurdish: پەیکوڵی, romanized: Peykulî,[1] Persian: پایکولی, in Arabic: بيكولي) is a bilingual Parthian and Middle Persian text corpus which was inscribed on the stone blocks of the walls of Paikuli tower; the latter is located in what is now southern part of Iraqi Kurdistan near modern-day Barkal village, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq (35°5′53.91″N 45°35′25.95″E / 35.0983083°N 45.5905417°E). These inscribed stone blocks are now in the Sulaymaniyah Museum; the field only contains the stones that were used in the construction of the tower.[2] It was set up as a monument to victory, and tells how and why the Sasanian emperor Narseh (also written Narses) ousted his grandnephew from power.[3]
In 293 Narses marched from Armenia in open revolt against his nephew with a host of supporters and allies, whose names are recorded on the Paikuli inscription.[4]
- ^ "پەیکوڵی: شوێنەوارێکی گرنگ... دەقێکی لە بیر کراو،". 2011 (in Kurdish): 11–36. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ Amin, OSM. "Visiting the Paikuli Tower Built by the Sasanian King Narseh". www.ancient.eu. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ Jacob Neusner, A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Vol. 12, p. 3.
- ^ Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, and Averil Cameron, The Cambridge Ancient History, p. 494.