Referring to thestylistic features of its architecture, Mikael Useynov and Leonid Brittanytsky dated the minaret since the 12th to the beginning of the 13th century.

[8] Eduard Eichwald saw the minaret in 1826, but when Boris Dorn visited the area of the Shamkir settlement in 1861 found only its ruins and reported about its destruction to the ground.

[9] The tower was mentioned by the American Protestant missionary Eli Smith:[10] The east wind, even after the fog of the morning had subsided, had seemed all day surcharged with noxious vapours; and before reaching the Shamkhor column, I felt the signs of the approaching fever.

On a stone at the base there is an inscription in Arabic script, while another encircles in the upper part, where there is also a surrounded gallery with a door that opens from within.

[11]The representation of the monument given by N. Frolovskys is detailed described in his "Review of the Russian Possessions in the Caucasus published in 1836, considering that “the most noteworthy of all the monuments there (meaning the Elisavetpol area) is the Shamkhor Pillar, built among the plains on the left bank of the Shamkhor river, 25 versts from the city, and open to the gaze of almost 30 versts.

It is impossible without regret to see that time is already beginning, in many places, to destroy this beautiful monument of antiquity, and even the inclination of the pillar is quite noticeable [“It is doubtful that this column served as an observatory, as Gamba believes (Voyages dans la Russie meridionale etc.

In addition, a wide decorative strip stands out on the tower cut by slit-like openings, approximately at the height of its upper third.

[12] The Arabic-language inscription on this stone slab, which is nowadays in the Museum of History of Azerbaijan, says that the tower was built at the expense of the Sheikh al-Saleh ibn Afshin in 493 AH (1099/1100).

Bismillah, with the help of Almighty Allah, at his request, under his protective means of Sheikh al-Saleh ibn Afshin, was ordered to build this watchtower in the series of defensive structures in the year four hundred ninety-three.The Azerbaijani historian Meshadikhanum Neymat examined the text of the inscription and came to the conclusion that the Shamkir minaret was one of those structures that were designated for coverage, that is, the defence of the city.