A tomb tower with thirty six engaged columns decorating its exterior walls is located in the Alburz Mountains north of the Nikā River, in Māzandarān province. It has three bands of inscription in Middle Persian and Arabic.
Bibliography:
– Cereti, Carlo G. “Two Late Pahlavi Inscriptions from the Alborz Mountains: Lajim and Mil-e Radekan.” In Translation and Transmission: Collection of Articles, edited by JaakkoHämeen-Anttila and Ilkka Lindstedt, 55-94. Ugarit-Verlag, Münster, 2019.
– Herzfeld, E. (1937) ‘Arabische Inschriften aus Iran und Syrien’. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 8, 78-102.
– Blair, S. S. The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana, 88-90. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.
– E. Diez, Churasanische Baudenkmäler, Berlin 1918, 36-9, 87-100.
Middle Persian Inscription:
plmwt’ krtn’ ZNE gwmbd’ by zywndkyh NPŠE sphpt’ ʾ bygʿpl m(h)m(d) Y wndlyn b’wnd mwly’mlwmwmnyn by ŠNT (?) tylyst hšt’t’ by tm’m krtn’ by ŠNT tylyst hšt<ʾ >t hšt.
Farmūd kardan ēn gumbad be zīndagīh <ī> xwēš *spāhbed Abī Jaʿfar Mohammad ī Wandarīn Bāwand mowlī Amir-u-mūminīn be sāl tīrīst haštād be tamām kardan sāl tīrīst haštād <ud> hašt.
The spāhbed Abī Jaʿfar Mohammad ī Wandarīn Bāwand client of the Commander of the faithful ordered to build this dome in year three hundred eighty. He ordered it to be completed it in year three hundred eighty eight.
(Carlo G. Cereti)
