The Khüis Tolgoi inscription

The Khüis Tolgoi inscription is written in a special variety of the Brāhmī script which was uninterpretad so far, especially because of half a dozen special signs. Their decipherment and the text in transliteration and transcription is presented in this paper. The linguistic features of the inscription show strong similarities to the Mongolian and Para-Mongolian which is also true for the morphology as is shown by A. Vovin, Interpretation of the Hüis Tolgoi inscription (for the time being discussed sub: https://www.academia.edu/s/07da0d7bfb/interpretation-of-the-huis-tolgoi-inscription ). The inscribed stone belongs to the 7th cent. as is argued by E. de la Vaissière, The historical context to the Hüis Tolgoi inscription (uploaded on academia.edu ). As fourth paper will be uploaded M. Ölmez, On the discovery, the whereabouts, condition of the stones, and our expedition.

2018

The Khüis Tolgoi inscription (early 7th c. AD), originally located in the vicinity of Tsetserleg city, nowadays in the basement of the National Museum of Archeology, Ulaanbaator, is written in a Mongolic language that is reasonably close to Middle Mongolian of 13-14th c. AD, but predates the latter by six centuries. The importance of this discovery is two-fold: first, it turned out that the oldest written language of the "Altaic" type on the steppe is Mongolic, and not Turkic. Second, it radically changes our existing notions about the language contacts in Central Asia and their directions.

This is a draft version of one of the the four papers presented in a joint panel on the Hüis Tolgoi Inscription from Mongolia (currently in the National Institute of Archeology, Ulaanbaator) with my colleagues Dieter Maue, Mehmet Ölmez, and Étienne de la Vaissière on August 31, 2017 in conjunction with 60th meeting of PIAC in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. My colleagues' papers will be uploaded to Academia.edu shortly, and currently we are working on a co-authored article.

This is the draft version of a text read at the PIAC 2017 conference in Hungary. It should be read in relation to the parallel articles of Dieter Maue, Mehmet Ölmez and Alexander Vovin.

GEPHYRA, 2011

This paper presents 10 new funerary inscriptions from the T okat Museum. Some o f the stelai are from G aziura (no. 1), Zela (nos. 2 and 10) and C om ana Pontica (no. 4). T he places o f dis covery o f the o th er stelai rem ain unknow n. T he oldest stele (no. 1) is from the late Classical or early Hellenistic Period. I t was set up for a Rhodian w ho may have lived in Gaziura as a trader. T he latest m onum ent (no. 10) is a stele o f a chartularius from the the end o f the 5th o r from the 6th century A D . T he stele no. 3, w hich indicates the year 182 (Pontus Polem iniacus era), may have been set u p in 245 /4 6 A D . O f the nam es m entioned in the inscriptions, 11 are G reek and 7 Latin; the origin o f "Sapos" in the stele no. 5 rem ains uncertain. T he inscriptions suggest a high degree o f H ellenization and R om anization in P ontus Polem oniacus.

The newly discovered stela from Zincirli is an exciting addition to the inscriptions from the site. The director of the Neubauer Expedition, David Schloen, is to be congratulated for his expert handling of the discovery and the speed and manner of its publication. 2 A model editio princeps has been published by Dennis Pardee 3 with most of the major general interpretive issues being explicated.

Von den sieben Regionen Mittelgriechenlands, die der Corpusband IG IX 1 in Neubearbeitung umfasst, erscheint nach Ätolien (1932), Akarnanien (1957), Westlokris (1968) und den Ionischen Inseln (2001) der fünfte Faszikel mit den Inschriften von Ostlokris. Neben den Grabinschriften und den Inschriften auf Keramik, die den Hauptteil des Corpus bilden, sind die Dekrete der Stadt Opus und der Brief des Kaisers Hadrian an die Stadt Naryka sowie für die Geschichte des Alphabets und für die Onomastik die archaischen Inschriften von besonderem Interesse. Den einzelnen Städten sind die antiken Belege für Namen und Ethnikon vorangestellt. Am Beginn des Bandes sind alle antiken Zeugnisse zu Ostlokris und seiner Bevölkerung aus der Zeit vom 8. Jh. v.Chr. bis zum 6. Jh. n.Chr. gesammelt. Der Band wird durch ausführliche Indices erschlossen. Erstmals sind alle aus Ostlokris erhaltenen Inschriften abgebildet.

Y. Porath, U. ‘Ad and ‘A. al-S. Sa‘id, The Nahal Tanninim Dam and Its Vicinity. Final Report of the 2000–2006 Excavation Seasons (IAA Reports 71), Jerusalem 2023, pp. 255–260

Quaerendo, 1985