Zhalgyz Töbe II (A-35)

Description

The inscription is situated on a rock edge on the other, the southern, side of the mountain. It was discovered by Kubarev in 1980, it was studied by V.M. Nadeljaev in that year. The inscription consists of 5 signs and one sign in the form of a short stroke; all the signs were hastily cut in the rock by a sharp object, as if in a cursive writing with an incline to the left. Now the inscription is considered to be lost.

Reading of V.M. Nadeljaev

Transliteration: s i/ї ö/ü γ d²? (ŋ)

Transcription:  sin aγdiŋ

Translation: You ascended a mountain.

(Nadeljaev 1984: 92)

It is not clear who ascended the mountain, but we can suppose that the inscription had a sacred meaning for its author; the address in the second person can be applied to the spirit-protector of this very impressive lonely hill on the endless Chuya steppe.