Baryk III

Data sheet
Identifier	Tyva 9
Alternative names	E-7
Place of origin	Republic of Tyva, 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/?page id=11373
Material	Stone
Tamga	No
Historical affiliation	Enisei Kyrgyz
Deciphered	Yes
3D representation	No
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The inscription was found by Klementz in 1891 at the river Baryk, a tributary of the Enisei. The stone was transported to the National Museum of the Republic Tyva by Batmanov in 1961. It measures 150 x 50 x 25 centimetres.

Editions

Radloff (1895, 309), Orkun (1940, 63), Малов (1952, 22-23), Батманов and Кунаа (1963 b, 31-32), Васильев (1983, 17, 60, 87), Кормушин (1997, 205-207), Аманжолов (2003, 117-118), Базылхан (2005, 176; 328), Кормушин (2008, 98-99), Yıldırım, Aydın and Alimov (2013, 35-36), Aydın (2015, 47-49), Kormuşin, Mozioğlu, Alimov and Yıldırım (2016, 66-67), Aydın (2019, 59-61)

Transliteration

BYičAšŊWN : WGLI : kẄlẄgčWR^[1]
BWŊWšWz : WLGAṬm : BWŊBWrmṣ
tŋrIdkI : kẄnkAyrdkI : ėlmkAbẅkmdm
KWYDA : KWnǰYmGAKA : ẄzDAWGLmKADRLDm

Transcription

bay ičä saŋun oɣlï külüg čor
buŋusuz ulɣattïm buŋ bu ärmiš
täŋridäki künkä yärdäki elimkä bükmädim
quyda qunǰuyïmqa özdä oɣlïmqa adrïldïm

Translation

[I am] Külüg Chor, son of Bai Ichä Sangun.
I grew up without grief. The grief was [the following]:
I did not get fully satiated with the sun in the sky and my people on the earth.
I departed from my consort in the secluded place and from my son in the valley.

Comments

↑ The initial segment ⟨kẄ⟩ is hardly visible. The reading is plausible not only in terms of context, but also on paleographic grounds.

Grapheme inventory

A

B

b

č

ič

D

d

e

g

G

I

K

k

ẅk

L

l

m

N

n

Ŋ

ŋ

nǰ

W

Ẅ

R

r

š

t

Ṭ

Y

y

z

Pictures and drawings

Радлов (1893, lxxviii)

Батманов and Кунаа (1963 b, 31)

Васильев (1983, 60)

Базылхан (2005, 328)

References

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

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

Радлов, Василий Васильевич 1893. Атлас древностей Монголии, 2. Санктпетербург: Наука.

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

Authorship

Károly, László 2025, 6 October. ‘Baryk III’, 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/Baryk III (accessed 31 Oct 2026)

[1] The initial segment ⟨kẄ⟩ is hardly visible. The reading is plausible not only in terms of context, but also on paleographic grounds.

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