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
 Paikuli Tower | |
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| 35°5′53.91″N 45°35′25.95″E / 35.0983083°N 45.5905417°E | |
| Location | Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq |
|---|---|
| Designer | Narseh |
| Type | Tower |
| Material | Stone |
| Beginning date | 3rd century AD |
The Paikuli inscription (Kurdish: پەیکوڵی, romanized: Peykulî,[1] Persian: پایکولی, in Arabic: بيكولي) is a bilingual text corpus in Parthian and Middle Persian, inscribed on the stone blocks of the Paikuli Tower's walls. The tower is located in the southern part of Iraqi Kurdistan, near the modern-day village of Barkal in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. These inscribed stone blocks are now housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, with the field only containing the stones used in the tower’s construction.[2] The inscription was erected as a monument to victory and explains how and why the Sasanian emperor Narseh (also written as 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.