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Figure 6

A stone block with inscriptions. This block and the one on the right are from Paikuli tower. The tower lies on a hill near Barkal, a modern village south-west of Lake Darband -i-Khan, Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq. It was set up as a monument commemorating the victory of the Sasanian king Narseh over his nephew Warham III (Barham III). The inscriptions were written in the Parthian and middle Persian languages. All the inscribed stone blocks are now in the Sulaimaniya Museum. No other museum in Iraq or the world has any of these inscribed stone blocks. 293 CE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).