Cube of Zoroaster, Naqsh-e Rustam, Iran
Archeologists have studied and restored the Sassanid inscriptions found on Paikuli Tower, located in the Iraqi Kurdistan.
“The Paikuli inscriptions are in Parthian, Pahlavi and Middle Persian languages,” president of the Societas Iranologica Europaea and head of the archeology team Carlo Cereti told CHTN.
“The inscriptions belong to the Sassanid King Narseh and are similar to the ones at the Cube of Zoroaster that bears Middle Persian, Greek and Parthian texts,” he added.
The Cube of Zoroaster is an Achaemenid tower-like construction at Naqsh-e Rustam archaeological site northwest of Persepolis in Fars Province, Iran.
Cereti also said that some petroglyphs were smuggled during the war and some of them have been transferred to a museum in Iraq.
According to Cereti, this is the first time the site has been studied after initial studies conducted by German archeologist Ernst Herzfeld in 1913.
The Paikuli monument, locally called 'idol house', is on the Iraqi side of the border with Iran on a north-south line drawn from Sulaimaniyah in Iraq to Qasr-e-Sirin in Iran on the ancient road from Ctesiphon to Azerbaijan.
In the 19th century, it consisted of the ruins of a large, square tower that had originally been covered on all sides by stone blocks, some of which contained inscriptions, but, at the time, lay scattered all around the monument.
Herzfeld reconstructed the monument as a tall, square box with a slightly wider base and the inscriptions placed up on opposite sides.
He found that the Paikuli inscription commemorates the war between the Sassanid king Narseh and Warahran III.
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