Kara Sug

Data sheet
Identifier	Tyva 11
Alternative names	E-9, Ulug Kem Kara Sug
Place of origin	Tyva Republic, Russia
Date	Unknown
GPS Coordinates	No exact coordinates available
Current location	Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tyva, Aldyn Doshka branch
Curator's URL	https://музейтыва.рф
Material	Stone
Tamga	No
Historical affiliation	Enisei Kyrgyz
Deciphered	Yes
3D representation	No
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The inscription was found by Aspelin in 1888 in a valley through which the stream Kara-sug flows into the Enisei from the right about 2 kilometres from the mouth of the river Elegest. The inscription consisted of five vertical lines, with two lines on the front and three on the back side of the stele. Due to poor preservation and significant damage over time, only the third line remains partially legible today. The stone was transported to the National Museum of the Republic of Tyva in 1961. It measures 190 x 41 x 16 centimetres.

Editions

Radloff (1895, 310-311), Orkun (1940, 199-200), Малов (1952, 24-25), Батманов and Кунаа (1963 a, 24-25), Васильев (1983, 18, 60, 88), Рəҹəбов and Мəммəдов (1993, 227, 230-231), Yıldırım, Aydın and Alimov (2013, 38-40), Aydın (2015, 50-51), Aydın (2019, 62-64)

Transliteration

Front side

... NmAszmADRLDm
... tWGDMbn

Back side

... m ... RDA : bŋẄsẄYwKrmṣYLŊyẄzlgd
... tmI ... ẄzA
... rm ... A

Transcription

Front side

... a äsizim^[1] a adrïldïm
... bän

Back side

... bäŋüsü yoq ärmiš yalïŋ yüzlüg^[2] ...
...
...

Translation

Front side

O ...! O my sorrow! I departed.
I ...

Back side

... had no memorial stone, ... with naked face
...

Comments

↑ Tekin (1964) pointed out that the runiform letters ⟨sIz⟩ are to be read as äsiz 'alas'.
↑ See Useev (2018, 646).

Grapheme inventory

A

b

D

d

g

G

wK

L

l

m

N

n

ŋ

Ŋ

W

Ẅ

R

r

s

ṣ

t

Y

y

z

Pictures and drawings

Radloff (1896, lxxv)

Батманов and Кунаа (1963 a, 24)

Васильев (1983, 60)

References

Aspelin, Johann Reinhold, Donner, Otto 1889. Inscriptions de l'Iénissei: recueillies et publiées par la Société finlandaise d'archeologie. Helsingfors: Imprimerie de la Société de littérature finnoise.

EniseiAspelinDonner1889FrenchLatin

Aydın, Erhan 2015. Yenisey Yazıtları. Konya: Kömen Yayınları.

EniseiAydın2015TurkishLatin

Aydın, Erhan 2019. Sibirya'da Türk İzleri: Yenisey Yazıtları. Istanbul: Kronik Kitap.

EniseiAydın2019TurkishLatin

Orkun, Hüseyin Namık 1940. Eski Türk Yazıtları, 3. İstanbul: Devlet Basımevi.

YeniseiOrkun1940TurkishLatin

Radloff, Wilhelm 1895. Die alttürkischen Inschriften der Mongolei. St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Yenisei, OrkhonRadloff1895GermanLatin

Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm 1896. Atlas der Alterthümer der Mongolei, 3. St. Petersburg: Akademie.

Yenisei, OrkhonRadloff1896GermanLatin

Tekin, Talat 1964. ‘On a misinterpreted word in the Old Turkic inscriptions’, Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 35: 134–144.

Useev, Nurdin 2018. ‘Kanmııldıg-Hovu (E 62) Yazıtı ve Eski Türklerde Maske Kültürü’, Uluslararası Türkçe Edebiyat Kültür Eğitim Dergisi 7: 641–649. EniseiUseev2018TurkishLatin

Yıldırım, Fikret, Aydın, Erhan, Alimov, Risbek 2013. Yenisey - Kırgızistan Yazıtları ve Irk Bitig. Ankara: BilgeSu.

Батманов, Игорь Алексеевич, Кунаа, Александр Чайбарович 1963 a. Памятники древнетюркской письменности тувы, 1. Кызыл: Тувинское книжное издательство.

Васильев, Дмитрий Дмитриевич 1983. Корпус тюркских рунических памятников бассейна Енисея. Ленинград: Наука.

Малов, Сергей Ефимович 1952. Енисейская письменность тюрков: Тексты и переводы. Москва, Ленинград: Наука.

EniseiМалов1952RussianCyrillic

Рəҹəбов, Ə., Мəммəдов, J. 1993. Орхон-Јенисеј абидəлəри. Бакы: Язычы.

Authorship

András, Anita, Károly, László 2023, 20 November. ‘Kara Sug’, in László Károly, Julian Rentzsch (eds) A Database of Turkic Runiform Inscriptions, Uppsala: Department of Linguistics and Philology. URL: https://www.runiform.lingfil.uu.se/wiki/Kara Sug (accessed 18 Apr 2024)

[1] Tekin (1964) pointed out that the runiform letters ⟨sIz⟩ are to be read as äsiz 'alas'.

[2] See Useev (2018, 646).

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