Uyuk-Tarlak inscription
Uyuk-Tarlak II is an inscription erected by Yenisei Kyrgyz. It was found by Aspelin in 1888 on a slope two kilometres away from the river Tarlak, Tuva. The stone was transported to the Minusinsk Museum of Regional History in 1916 and catalogued under the number 20. It measures 183 x 33 centimetres.[1]
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- sIz : elmA : KWnǰWymA : WGLNmA : ḄWḌNmA : sIz : mA : LṬmŝ : Yŝm : DA
- Ṭm : elṬWGN : ṬWṬwK : bn : tŋrI : elm : kA : elčIsI : rtm : LṬI : BGBWḌN : KA : bgI : rtm
Old Turkic original text:
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Translation by Turk Bitig[2]
English translation:
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References[]
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Radloff W. The Inscriptions from Ujuk-Tarlak // The Old Turkish Inscriptions of Mongolia. Third delivery The monuments of Koscho-Zaidam, the other monuments of the Orchon cup and monuments in the Yenisei river basin. St.Petersburg, 1895. p. 304.
- ^ Malov S.E. Monument from Uyuk Tarlak, tributary of the river. Ulug-Kema // Yenisei writing of the Türks. M.-L., 1952. p. 11-13.
- ^ Batmanov I.A. Monument from Uyuk Tarlak // Language of the Yenisei monuments of the ancient Turkic writing. Frunze, 1959. p. 135-138. ; Batmanov I.A. and Kunaa A.Ch. Monument of Uk-Tarlag E-1. M-20 // Monuments of the ancient Turkic writing of Tuva. Issue II, Kyzyl, 1963. p. 9-10.
- ^ Erdal (2002: 60) is of opinion that the word elči is better to understand as 'ruler'.
- ^ Tekin (1964) was the first who has pointed out that the runiform letters <sIz> are to be read as äsiz 'alas'.
- ^ Esiz. This word is occurred frequently in Yenisey inscriptions. The scientists below considered this word the following way: W.Radloff siz - «Von euch»,[3] S.Malov siz - «from You»,[4] I.A. Baranov- «from You».[5] In this case it’s necessary to clarify the meaning of this word. There are two suggestions of this question: posthumous words where devoted to someone who died, or these inscriptions were death words of a dying man. In any case, the stone words were written from died man. Words devoted to the deceased person occurred rarely. In other words this word is edification of the deceased person. For this reason, the word «You» and «alas, grief» wouldn’t suit for translation.
Further reading[]
- Aspelin, Johann Reinhold & Donner, Otto, 1889: "Inscriptions de l'Iénissei, recueillies et publiées par la Société Finlandaise d'Archéologie"
- Erhan Aydin, 2009: "DATA REGARDING YENISEY INSCRIPTIONS IN S. GERARD CLAUSON'S ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY"
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- Archaeological sites in Russia
- Turkic inscriptions