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The Ongin Inscription Author(S): Gerard Clauson Reviewed Work(S): Source: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No The Ongin Inscription Author(s): Gerard Clauson Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 3/4 (Oct., 1957), pp. 177-192 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25202038 . Accessed: 23/08/2012 05:52 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Cambridge University Press and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. http://www.jstor.org JRAS. 1957. Plate V . O ? JKjXJUry* JLy^? C^JLpfcc^-rt- :|^trD?|ak^^>AiHYrhO?M.-r^D:,h^1:,h^?lAi. :|^hr?0fJYi^:^HW>?):^>O)Hy>:|$IJ?|9PD ... a..K.\ > -?r.Kl^lArl. .V... rl-WVW * c *.. if. .Ir? ^ ? 1H) :<rH?tfi)$ -(l9YYh>rYSh:<r,ftfJ:i+J?h :N?>:>VJDI9hY:$?Jr?:?SY:)VriirhY:>Wrlfc Oy8^4>HJl:^Yg:M^h>^t?P:H>A:)Va?:nc)l *.W>D, *^:9*:|8h[Y-i.>N^I>0HH^ ^?f?*W-? 3H> ]>JC?> :/* P^ *Yi hM*9SH : I30X) ?.7L.ar^8At|9h?:U;^.X.>. CrKYl^YA) ?|,?:y^:0|:|&ri4HP:ftJ?hHhYA:$ir:^r?'7YSktf. :^?:|$rncD:^:,tT>li>:4iri)^:Js^^^4>a:l9Y5 ^ __ 4>)D(rH?Y1h>.lSY Yh:d[Y]Y^|:fh^l]Y^hYB.^Is?N1<?h:??,rA^:?r?3?)7. -4^ptrt,?h:'hA4i:,fi3:|9YYh^aYY^:^:^Y tPfrci):) ^'^^^^^YShoa^hh.'vr^-^aiH?. JRAS. 1957. Plate VI .r--v... .r^(Ari>rf(?>d(^v?.-ir) ?v/fc.4-. (>r*)>(4->>d .:rtJ9rA9th:^c)-.r>i<D$'?).,>rHf?4r^l+iahYYY^/o. : mh:S>?HI :rH?h ?AP*jTI:?rifrpri H<H:>r?YA :m&#>?.x^h^ri^rScJ-.a^ir? >Yri:|YhY:lH>P?H:^xYhH^:^J^>^^rHM?hw. :JWri :J"$Yr.ft m h: 4-#3 JS D:<W&JH# ^rf ^>?<Hc)?r^:^^Yhr4^-^?h:^^4i^sJ^H^ JVti:mNt)[rry]...(w>j:^)^(H.\rtYA>^Ho HV>D:^X^:nYr?:4iS^Hd>JL(^?>r^$(M$!H ...rrsir.m. ..*[#H]>/?:r)HYH>? r$MA:*#.*. V.MhNlrJ'H..... ' *-* $-?:*.S. .(>&[ 4.. -.-6. -hV&'.r? -hr?-iV^.* ...-$:4 4-.7. THE ONGIN INSCRIPTION By Gerard Clauson (PLATES V-\ I) The Ongin inscription was discovered in 1891, the year I was on near a born, in Outer Mongolia the Manet mountains, tributary a of the River Ongin, from which it takes its name, at a point little north-east of 46? N., 102? E., that is about 100 miles south of the " " two great Orkhon Inscriptions and some 250 miles west-south west of the inscription of To?ukuk.1 The main inscription of 0. is inscribed on the front and one side a on of stone stele, running from the top downwards, starting the right (as you face it) and continuing on the left side. There are a eight long lines on the front and four on the side. There is supple mentary inscription of seven short horizontal lines, scratched rather than carved above the last four lines of the main inscription. are The stone is badly weathered and parts of both inscriptions lost beyond recall ; these include the bottom third of lines 1 to 7 of the main inscription, much more of the corner lines, 8 and 9, a little of lines 10 and 11, rather more of line 12, and a good deal of the supplementary inscription. on Above the first eight lines of the main inscription the face of the stele there is carved a tamga, or tribal badge, which can best be described as the tamga surmounting I., with what in English on heraldry would be called a mark of difference. The tamga I. is the stylized silhouette of a mountain goat seen sideways ; that an on O. is the same with what looks like inverted walking-stick across with a curved handle lying vertically the middle of the animal, with a similar but more complicated object in front of it. We do not know enough about eighth century tamgas to appreciate the exact significance of these differences, but clearly the two tamgas are not identical, and it seems legitimate to assume that the person commemorated in O. was a member of the same tribe as K?l T?gin but not of his immediate family. 1 " " I tho Memorial to K?l as I.", that to as II.", quote T?gin" Bilge Kagan and the inscription of Toiiukuk as T.". The first two are quoted by side (E. = East, etc.) and lino on the side, T. only by the line. In quoting them, I have used the text in H. N. Orkun's Eski Turk Yazitlari, Istanbul, 1936 if., checked by as reference to tho published reproductions. Tho present inscription I refer to " " 0.". I refer to Prof. V. V. Radloff as R.'\ and I quote B. translation " Atalay's as of Mahmud al-Ka?g?ri's D?w?nuH-Lutj?tVl-Turk Kas.", followed by the volume (i, etc.) and page (1, etc.). JRAS. OCTOBER 1957 15 178 THE ONGIN INSCRIPTION E. states that three hiked squeezes in all were taken of the one was on inscriptions. A reduced reproduction of published plate 26 of R.'s Atlas der Altert?mer der Mongolei, Pt. I, St. Peters burg, 1892. A printed text and translation of both inscriptions was published in R.'s Die AUt?rkischen Inschriften der Mongolei, a St. Petersburg, 1895, pp. 243 ff. A reproduction of second squeeze, reduced to a slightly different scale and partly out of focus (?), was on 83 of Pt. Ill of the Atlas, 1896. This is published plate " a a accompanied by reproduction of retouched squeeze", that is a fair copy of the squeeze with nearly every letter drawn in. It was appears that this drawing, though published later, in fact made before the printed text, since R. says that he spent months over the three squeezes before he finally completed his text and translation, and ventured the opinion that any future reconsidera a a tion of 0. would probably lead to less complete rather than fuller text. Thus the drawing, which differs to some extent from an the printed text, seems to represent intermediate stage in R.'s thinking. There are, therefore, four and only four original authorities for the text, two primary ones, the reproductions of the two squeezes, can on which supplement one another, since letters which be read one are illegible on the other, and vice versa, and two secondary ones, the drawing and the printed text. over of All these were produced sixty years ago, when the study " " runic texts was still in its infancy, erroneous views still prevailed on various points of grammar and orthography of the language used we in them, and much knowledge which have gained from the study no of the Uygur texts and Ka?. was not yet available. Since then on 0. original work has been done the actual text of Indeed, Turcologists seem to have been completely inhibited by R.'s remarks quoted above from attempting to republish it. R. himself returned to the question of the date of the inscription in pp. viii-x of the Preface to the Zweite Folge (1899) of his AUt?rkischen Inschriften. Vilhelm Thomsen in his excursus on erin? in Turcica (M?moires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, xxxvii, Helsingfors, 1916), p. 39, one short corrected one obvious and reproduced passage, error, added that apart from this he had no alternative but to accept R.'s text. Paul Pelliot in a footnote to the study of the 12-year " animal which forms one of his Nine Notes on Central cycle, " Asiatic Questions (T'oung Pao, 2nd Series, xxvi, 1929), made THE ONGIN INSCRIPTION 179 a new suggestion for the date of the inscription. L. K. Katona on p. 414 of the K?rosi Gsoma Archiv, i, 5, Hannover, 1925, made some suggestions, mostly sound, for improving the translation of line 11. Marquart in UngariscJie Jahrb?clie 3-4, p. 83, proposed a probably erroneous identification of the kagan mentioned in line 1. a H. N. Orkun republished B.'s text with slightly improved trans lation in Turkish in his Eski Turk Yazitlari, vol. i, stating that he " " followed Thomsen's example of not revising the original runic text. Finally, A. N. Bernshtam in his Sotsialno-Ekonomiclveskiy Stroy Orkhono-Y eniseiskikh Tyurok vi-vm, Vekov, Moscow Leningrad, 1946, devoted a page and a half (pp. 38-9) to the inscrip tion but equally refrained from revising the text, remarking quite truly that R.'s edition gave more than could be seen on the repro^ ductions of the squeezes. This, so far as I can discover, is an exhaustive catalogue of the references to 0. in learned works. One unfortunate consequence of all this scholarly reticence is that 0. still seems to enjoy, at any rate in some quarters, the wholly undeserved reputation of being the earliest-dated Turkish text. As Pelliot (op. cit.) pointed out, it got this reputation in the most ludicrous fashion. R.'s original reasoning can best be stated a as follows: (1) memorial as stately as this cannot have com a memorated anyone less distinguished than kagan ; (2) the inscrip tion says that the man commemorated died in a Dragon Year (of the 12-year cycle) ; (3) the refounder of the Northern T?rk? x Dynasty, ?lt?ri? or Kutlug Kagan died in a Dragon Year ; (4) no other early kagan is known to have died in a Dragon Year ; there fore this is the memorial of ?lt?ri? ; therefore it is the oldest dated Turkish inscription.
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