Back የኦርኾን ጽሑፎች Amharic كتابات أورخون Arabic Inscripciones d'Orkhon AST Orxon abidələri Azerbaijani اورخون داشیازمالاری AZB Орхонски надписи Bulgarian Inscripcions de l'Orkhon Catalan Orkhon-indskrifterne Danish Orchon-Inschriften German Kıtabey Orhuni DIQ
| Orkhon inscriptions | |
|---|---|
| simplified Chinese: 阙特勤碑; traditional Chinese: 闕特勤碑; pinyin: Què tèqín bēi ('Queteqin Monument') | |
 The Kul Tigin stele. Orkhon Museum, Kharkhorin, Mongolia | |
| Type | Memorial |
| Height | 3.3 metres (11 ft) |
| Width | 1.3 metres (4 ft 3 in) |
| Writing | Middle Chinese; Old Turkic, written in Old Turkic alphabet |
| Created | 8th century |
| Discovered | 1889 Orkhon Valley, Mongolia 47°33′38″N 102°50′28″E / 47.56056°N 102.84111°E |
| Discovered by | Nikolay Yadrintsev |
| Present location | Bilge Khan and General Kul Tigin Complex |
The Orkhon inscriptions are bilingual texts in Middle Chinese and Old Turkic, the latter written in the Old Turkic alphabet, carved into two memorial steles erected in the early 8th century by the Göktürks in the Orkhon Valley in what is modern-day Mongolia. They were created in honor of two Turkic princes, Kul Tigin and his brother Bilge Khagan.[1]
The inscriptions relate in both languages the legendary origins of the Turks, the golden age of their history, their subjugation by the Tang dynasty, and their liberation by Ilterish Qaghan.[2] According to one source, the inscriptions contain "rhythmic and parallelistic passages" which resemble that of epics.[1]
- ^ a b Ross, E. Denison (1930). "The Orkhon Inscriptions: Being a Translation of Professor Vilhelm Thomsen's Final Danish Rendering". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies. 5 (4). University of London: 861–76. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00090558. JSTOR 607024. S2CID 140199091.
- ^ Krueger, John R. (1962). "The Earliest Turkic Poem". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 82 (4): 557. doi:10.2307/597528. JSTOR 597528.