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The inscriptions have not yet been adequately deciphered. From the names of the rulers of the Shirvanshah family on some stones, it is believed that they are from the middle of the 13th Century, our guide said.
The inscriptions have not yet been adequately deciphered. From the names of the rulers of the Shirvanshah family on some stones, it is believed that they are from the middle of the 13th Century, our guide said.
Middle Court. We now descended to the middle court of the Shirvanshah Palace complex. Here we came to a large number of broken slabs of stone, some decorated with faces of people, camels, and goats, and many with Arabic script. They were from the ruins of a castle called Sabayil Qala, a fort that once protected an island which is now submerged in the water just off the shore of Baku’s southern Bayil Peninsula (hence, called Bayil Stones).
Our guide pointed out the entrance to a small room inside this building which “was the royal treasury” and said that the inscription above it is “usually what you see above the entrance to royal mausoleums.” Furthermore, the 8 corner shape of this building is “typical of royal mausoleums.”
Divankhana. The structure to the left of the Palace was called Divankhana which the sign in front of it said was built in 1428 and was intended for official receptions and state meetings, held in its octagonal hall-rotunda. Our guide said that this place was possibly also a “judge court.” She said there are several “wells” under this structure and in those the remains of people and animals have been found, “leading us to believe that the condemned were left here to be eaten by animals such as tigers.”
Then there was a metal brazier called manghal. Our guide said: “Nowadays in some mountain villages and even in suburbs of Baku in winter time people still use manghal. With a plate under it, they fill the manghal with some coal or wood which they light to heat up the manghal. After that they put a big box over it and on the box they put blankets and under the blankets they put their feet and hands and warm themselves this way.”
There was a samovar. Our guide commented: “Samovar is not from Russia. The Russians first noticed its use in the 17th Century here, and bought it from the Lahij people in northern Azerbaijan. Even the word samvar is Azeri.”
The Shirvanshah Palace was now being used as an exhibition hall for private collections of more concrete artifacts of much more recent times. There were some coins from the 1880s.
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