Margrave in Bishabour, Burial in Eqlid: A Survey of Eqlid Inscription

Private inscriptions are an important part of corpus of Sassanid inscriptions that lasted until the first centuries AH. An important part of these inscriptions are the funerary inscriptions that contain important information about the burial ceremony in the late Sassanid and early Islamic era in Iran. The majority of these inscriptions have been found in Fars, then in Yasuj, Xian China (China) and Istanbul. Some of these inscriptions are dated and have a definite temporal assignment. One of these important inscriptions is the Eqlid inscriptions, dating to the late Sassanid period, and contains important information about two important titles and burial diversity in the late Sassanian era. This inscription is the last dated inscription before the fall of the Sasanian dynasty: the day Xwar (11th) and Māh (12th) of the month Ābān of the year 6 of Yazdgerd III (February 638 AD).