Aldy Bel I

Data sheet
Identifier	Tyva 12
Alternative names	E-12, G-4, Ulug Khem Kulikhem
Place of origin	Tyva Republic, Russia
Date	Unknown
GPS Coordinates	No exact coordinates available
Current location	Original location
Curator's URL	Unknown
Material	Stone
Tamga	Tamga4
Historical affiliation	Enisei Kyrgyz
Deciphered	Yes
3D representation	No
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The inscription was found by Aspelin in 1888 on a sloping foothill terrace in the Aldy Bel valley. It is located on the right bank of the river Enisei, around seven kilometres west of the village Eilig Khem and approximately three kilometres east of the river Kuilug Khem, a right tributary of the Enisei. The inscription consists of three vertical lines read from the bottom to the top. The line on the front (north) side includes a tamga,^[1] while the right (west) side is believed to have originally consisted of two lines, with one of them now illegible. The order of the lines remains uncertain. For a long time, the inscription was thought to include two more lines, which turned out to be part of the inscription now referred to as Aldy Bel II. The monument is still at its original location. It measures 175 x 37 x 27 centimetres.

Editions

Radloff (1895, 317), Orkun (1940, 53-54), Малов (1952, 34-35), Батманов and Кунаа (1965, 15-16), Васильев (1983, 20, 60), Aalto (1991, 53-54), Рəҹəбов and Мəммəдов (1993, 240-241), Кормушин (1997, 180-183), Кормушин (2008: 105), Aydın, Alimov, Yıldırım (2013, 47-49), Aydın (2015, 59-60), Kormuşin, Mozioğlu, Alimov, Yıldırım (2016, 76-79), Aydın (2019, 75-77)

Transliteration

North side

čWčIbẄrIšŊWN

West side

...
šWByr : kmKṬWN : YkẄn ... WR ...

Transcription

North side

čočï böri šaŋun

West side

...
šub yär käm qatun^[2] ay kün ...

Translation

North side

Chochy Böri Shangun

West side

...
Water and Earth, (the rivers) Kem and Katun, the Moon and the Sun

Comments

↑ A tamga of the “western” type, i.e. two arcs with a crossbar, identical to the one on E-14 and E-19. E-20 also exhibits a similar tamga but that contains an additional vertical line, extending upward from the crossbar (Kormushin 1997, 180).
↑ Name of a river, see Aydın 2011.

Grapheme inventory

B

b

č

I

k

m

N

n

Ŋ

W

Ẅ

R

r

š

Y

y

Pictures and drawings

Radloff (1896, lxxix)

Васильев (1983, 60)

Aalto (1991, 53)

References

Aalto, Pentti 1991. ‘Old Turkic epigraphic materials (Gathered by J. G. Granö)’, Journal de la Société Finno Ougrienne 83: 7–78. EniseiAalto1991EnglishLatin

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 2011. ‘Remarks on Qatun in the Yenisei inscriptions’, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64: 251–256. EniseiAydın2011EnglishLatin

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

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

Yenisei, OrkhonRadloff1896GermanLatin

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

Батманов, Игорь Алексеевич, Кунаа, Александр Чайбарович 1965. Памятники древнетюркской письменности тувы, 3. Кызыл: Тувинское книжное издательство.

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

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

Authorship

András, Anita, Károly, László 2024, 2 February. ‘Aldy Bel I’, 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/Aldy Bel I (accessed 18 Apr 2024)

[1] A tamga of the “western” type, i.e. two arcs with a crossbar, identical to the one on E-14 and E-19. E-20 also exhibits a similar tamga but that contains an additional vertical line, extending upward from the crossbar (Kormushin 1997, 180).

[2] Name of a river, see Aydın 2011.

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