Uyuk Arzhan

Data sheet
Identifier	Tyva 4
Alternative names	E-2, M-21
Place of origin	Republic of Tyva, Russia
Date	Unknown
GPS Coordinates	No exact coordinates available
Current location	Minusinsk Martyanov Museum
Curator's URL	http://музей-мартьянова.рф
Material	Stone
Tamga	Tamga2
Historical affiliation	Enisei Kyrgyz
Deciphered	Yes
3D representation	Yes
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The inscription was found by Aspelin in 1888 on the left bank of the river Uyuk, about two kilometres away from the riverbed, in the vicinity of a kurgan (burial mound) called Arzhan. The stone was transported to the Minusinsk Martyanov Museum in 1916 and catalogued under No. 21. It measures 215 x 41 centimetres. A 3D model of the stone is available in the database of the RSSDA Laboratory under the number XZ0518.

Editions

Radloff (1895, 305), Orkun (1940, 35-36), Малов (1952, 13-16), Батманов and Кунаа (1963 b, 11-12), Васильев (1983, 14, 59, 83), Кормушин (1997, 256-260), Аманжолов (2003, 112), Базылхан (2005, 171, 324), Кормушин (2008, 91-92), Sertkaya (2011), Yıldırım, Aydın and Alimov (2013, 25-27), Aydın (2015, 38-39), Kormuşin, Mozioğlu, Alimov and Yıldırım (2016, 58-59), Aydın (2019, 47-48)

Transliteration

eṣmRImzṣDm
lmčŋdm
rrdṃmbmwKz
Ačdgn : rrdṃmAwKz
rṬIm : ïKṣKbš : bn

Transcription

ešim-urïm ...
älim ...
är ärdämim äbim ...
... är ärdämim ...
är atïm ...^[1] bän

Translation

My comrade, my son ...
My realm ...
My manly virtue, my household ...
... my manly virtue ...
My troops. I am ...

Comments

↑ There is most likely a proper name behind the letter combination ⟨ïKṣKbš⟩ which cannot be interpreted unequivocally. Possible readings might be qïšïqbaš, qïšqabaš or qïšaqbaš. Батманов and Кунаа (1963, 12) read ⟨YṣKbš⟩ yaš aq baš.

Grapheme inventory

A

e

I

b

č

D

d

g

K

wK

l

m

ṃ

n

ŋ

R

r

ṣ

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bš

Pictures and drawings

Аманжолов (2003, 112)

Appelgren-Kivalo (1931, Abb. 329)

Aspelin and Donner (1889, 16)

Батманов and Кунаа (1963, 11)

Васильев (1983, 59)

Базылхан (2005, 324)

RSSDA, XZ0518

References

Appelgren-Kivalo, Hjalmar 1931. Alt-Altaische Kunstdenkmäler: Briefe und Bildermaterial von J. R. Aspelins Reisen in Sibirien und der Mongolei 1887-1889. Helsingfors: Finnische Altertumsgesellschaft.

EniseiAppelgrenKivalo1931GermanLatin

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

Kormuşin, İgor, Mozioğlu, Emine, Alimov, Risbek, Yıldırım, Fikret 2016. Yenisey - Altay - Kırgızistan Yazıtları ve Kâǧıda Yazılı Runik Belgeler. Ankara: BilgeSu.

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

Sertkaya, Osman Fikri 2011. ‘E 2 - Uyuk-Arjan (Tuva) Yazıtı’, Turkish Studies 6: 27–34. EniseiSertkaya2011TurkishLatin

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

Аманжолов, Алтай Серсанович 2003. История и теория древнетюркского письма. Алматы: Мектеп.

Батманов, Игорь Алексеевич, Кунаа, Александр Чайбарович 1963 b. Памятники древнетюркской письменности тувы, 2. Кызыл: Тувинское книжное издательство.

Базылхан, Нәпіл (ed.) 2005. Қазақстан тарихы туралы түркі деректемелері, 2: Көне түрік бітіктастары мен ескерткіштері (Орхон, Енисей, Талас). Алматы: Даук-Пресс.

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

Кормушин, Игорь Валентинович 1997. Тюркские енисейские эпитафии: Тексты и исследования. Москва: Наука.

Кормушин, Игорь Валентинович 2008. Тюркские енисейские эпитафии: Грамматика, текстология. Москва: Наука.

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

EniseiМалов1952RussianCyrillic

Щербак, Александр Михайлович 1970. ‘Енисейские рунические надписи: К истории открытия и изучения’, Тюркологический сборник 1970: 111–134. EniseiЩербак1970RussianCyrillic

Authorship

Károly, László 2023, 20 November. ‘Uyuk Arzhan’, 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/Uyuk Arzhan (accessed 18 Apr 2024)

[1] There is most likely a proper name behind the letter combination ⟨ïKṣKbš⟩ which cannot be interpreted unequivocally. Possible readings might be qïšïqbaš, qïšqabaš or qïšaqbaš. Батманов and Кунаа (1963, 12) read ⟨YṣKbš⟩ yaš aq baš.

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