Sunday, August 28, 2022
August is the month of victories for the Turks. Turkish Culture Research Institute issued on a monthly basis Turkish culture He used to dedicate the August issues of his magazine to victories.
August of 2022 was also a month of joy. In his ancestral homeland, delegations of the International Turkic Academy and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences Archeology Institute, working in the Nomgon valley of the Arhangay aymak (state) of Mongolia, found the monument (complex) of Ilteriş Kagan. The news came on August 23; On August 24, the first details were revealed to the world.
The monument, which measures 49×41.5 meters, has stone statues of people, lions and sheep, an altar stone, and the upper part of the inscribed stone and its hill. Plus fifty or so balbals.
The most important of the finds is the upper part of the inscribed stone. Because there is a 12-line Turkish text with Turkish carvings. Unfortunately, since the stone does not have a lower part, there are only the beginning parts of the lines. On the reverse side there is a text in Sogghdanese.
According to the first information announced by the Mongolian delegation officials and the President of the International Turkic Academy, Darkan Kıdırali, the Turkish text Teŋri, Turk, Kutlug, divisional words were read. Words read in social media news God, Blessing Even though it is written as such, I wrote the forms during the Turkish Khaganate period. Already on the fifth row from the right -ug I also noticed the two letters that give their sound. These are probably Kutlug are the last two letters of the word. If in the text İlteriş Kutlug if there are words Kagan word is expected. Bengü in the stones Turkish the two most used words your trunk and Kagan are words. Therefore, in this text your trunk and Kagan must have words. Napil Bazilhan, who is in the Kazakh delegation, is a good Kokturk script expert. I am sure he will read and explain the text in the best way possible.
Scientists estimate the date of Ilteriş’s death between the years 690-693. It is also reported in Chinese sources that his tombstone was erected in the year of the dragon. The dragon year in the late 7th century corresponds to 692. If the stone found really belongs to İlteriş, its date is 692. That is exactly 1330 years ago.
Yes, the Turkish word has seen the light of day 1330 years away. This is the oldest source of the Turkish word in a Turkish text. We also know that the word “Turkish” is mentioned in foreign sources in earlier times. In Chinese sources dated 629 and 636 Turkish The word is recorded in its Chinese form. In the Sogda language text of the Bugut inscription erected around 580 Turkish The Sogdian plural form (Turkut) passes. At the end of the 6th century, a coin in Sogdanese was printed on behalf of one of the Köktürk khans. Turkish word passes. B.C. 430 in Herodotus Iyrcae The word in the form is probably also Turkish is the word. Because the same word is also used in two Latin works of the 1st century AD. Turcae/Tyrcae in the format. So, in a Turkish text, it is the oldest word of the Turkish word. source is the newly found İlteriş Kağan monument.
The International Turkish Academy and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences have done a blessed job. They will undoubtedly publish the excavation results and texts in the best way and present them to the scientific world.
After writing the above article, the pre-reading attempts of the scientists in the delegation fell on social media from Fuzuli Mecidli. In the new announcement, it is reported that there are 19 lines on the obverse, and 12 lines are in good condition. in the first year oud year seventh month has the phrase. This is the year of cattle and it corresponds to 689. Some Chinese sources also record that İlteriş died around 690. As I guessed in line 4 Kutlug Kagan Turk (I counted the 5th line.) In the 7th line we emphasis should be placed on his reading; at that time us is expected. on line 12 plucked it reading, cop was equal or cop equivalentŋ should be. Shaded readings can be written with a single letter in Kök Türk script. We will continue to wait for the scientific publication.
Let’s find Kutlug Kagan together!
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