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<p>[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 2446790, member: 44140"]The Battle is mentioned on the trilingual inscription king Shapur I made at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rustam" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rustam" rel="nofollow">Naqsh-e Rustam</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>When at first we had become established in the empire, Gordian Caesar raised in all of the Roman Empire a force from the Goth and German realms and marched on Babylonia against the Empire of Iran and against us. On the border of Babylonia at Misikhe, a great frontal battle occurred. Gordian Caesar was killed and the Roman force was destroyed. And the Romans made Philip Caesar. Then Philip Caesar came to us for terms, and to ransom their lives, gave us 500,000 denars, and became tributary to us. And for this reason we have renamed Misikhe Peroz-Shapur.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]510912[/ATTACH] </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 2446790, member: 44140"]The Battle is mentioned on the trilingual inscription king Shapur I made at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Rustam']Naqsh-e Rustam[/URL]: [I]When at first we had become established in the empire, Gordian Caesar raised in all of the Roman Empire a force from the Goth and German realms and marched on Babylonia against the Empire of Iran and against us. On the border of Babylonia at Misikhe, a great frontal battle occurred. Gordian Caesar was killed and the Roman force was destroyed. And the Romans made Philip Caesar. Then Philip Caesar came to us for terms, and to ransom their lives, gave us 500,000 denars, and became tributary to us. And for this reason we have renamed Misikhe Peroz-Shapur. [ATTACH=full]510912[/ATTACH] [/I][/QUOTE]
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