Runic Stone Inscription Decoded

“A stone covered with runic writings has been discovered this spring near the city of Karakol. The text in Old Turkic is almost identical to that of an inscription found by Mr. Proskuryakov, a researcher from Krasnoyarsk, in the Ak-Yus caves of the Republic of Khakassia (a federal subject of Russia), in 1885” – Taalaibek Abdiev, Associate Professor of the Manas Kyrgyzstani-Turkish University, discoverer of the inscription, reported.

The difference between the two texts lies in the last words. In the Karakol inscription the last words starts with the letter “p”, unlike the Ak-Yus artifact, where the same word starts with an “n”. Thus the word reads [oplanyp] — “without any restraint”.

Experts believe the author of the inscription was a Nestorian, follower of a Christian denomination. Moreover, the phrase itself is a religious invocation, hence a particular calligraphic style of the runes, conforming to classic canons of Turkic runic script. Expert date the sample as far back as VII-IX centuries AD.

Runic Stone Inscription Decoded

Source: the Evening Bishkek