Bičiktu-Boom V (A-55)

Description

The inscription is situated on the southern side oft eh village, appr. 60m from Bičiktu-Boom III.  It was found in 1994 by L.N. Open’šev and I. L. Kyzlasov. It is a horizontal inscription, it consists of 7 signs, the length of the line is 16cm, the height of the characters is from 2,2 till 4,0cm.

Publications: no

Earlier readings: no

Reading of L.N.Tybykova,

I.A. Nevskaya and M. Erdal

Runic transliteration:

Transliteration: p r² b² m t¹ s^{1 U}k ? ? ? ?

Transcription: (a)p(a) (ä)r (ä)v(i)m t(a)š ok

Translation: (I), warrior Apa: my house is Taš Ok (lit.: stone arrow).

Comments

1. The personal name Apa was apparently widely spread in the Old Turkic time; we encounter it also in the inscriptions Kurgak 1 as a part of the name Temir Apa.

2. The third sing b² has the typical Orkhon form.

3. The fifth sign t¹ also the Orphon shape. The next sign š1 is often met in the Orkhon inscriptions, but rarely in Mountainous Altay. We read these signs as t(a)š ‘stone’. The next word is ok ‘arrow’. This could be a place name Taš Ok ‘Stone Arrow’. If we suppose that the author of the inscription meant t(a)šug ‘the transportation of different things, possessions that one can carry with him’, written with the voiceless final consonant by mistake, we would get an interesting interpretation: (I), warrior Apa: my house is my load (i.e. I carry all my possessions with me).

4. After the 7th sign we find half deleted lines that could be a picture made, probably, by the author of the inscription.