Researchos on the Sites with Old Inscriptions in Mongolia

在这个项目中，我们的目标是对蒙古一些主要的历史遗址和碑文进行全面的研究，这些遗址和碑文对于研究突厥人（6-8毫升）、维吾尔人（8-9毫升）和蒙古帝国（13-14毫升）的历史至关重要。最近蒙古政府政策的改变使我们有机会进入这些遗址和碑文。从1996年到1998年的每个夏天，我们都会派遣五到六名成员到蒙古去一个月或更长时间。我们从古突厥语、古粟特语、古蒙古语、古波斯语和古汉语的铭文中各取了两套墨拓片。包括一些新发现的。我们按照取得许可的必要程序，将其中一套带到了日本。这些拓片使我们能够完善前人发表的铭文。在这份报告中，我们提供了有关突厥-维吾尔时期的古突厥语和粟特语铭文的最新文本版本。配有完整的日语-英语翻译。对于蒙古时期的铭文，由于限于学期最后一年（1998年）的研究，我们只能提供一些已经出版的文本的修订本。我们仍在继续编辑这些未发表的文本。由于我们不熟悉考古方法，我们只能提供有关每个历史遗址的现状和风景的信息，这些遗址有或有各自的铭文。我们认为它们将有助于对这些文本作出新的解释。我们打算在五年内出版最终报告中所有拓片的照片复制品。

In this project we have aimed at comprehensive researches on some main historical sites and inscriptions in Mongolia, which are most important for the historical study of the Turks (6-8 cc.), the Uighurs (8-9 cc.) and the Mongol Empire (13-14 cc.). The recent change of policy of the Mongol government enabled us to have access to these sites and inscriptions.Every summer from 1996 to 1998 we dispatched five or six members to Mongolia for a month or longer. We have taken two sets of ink rubbings from each of the inscriptions written in Ancient Turkic, Sogdian, Mongolian, Persian and Chinese. including some newly discovered ones. We brought one set of them to Japan following necessary procedures for taking the permission. These rubbings have enabled us to improve the text of inscriptions publishede by former scholars.In this report we provide the most up-to-date text edition of the inscriptions in Ancient Turkic and Sogdian concerning to the Turk-Uighur period. with fully annotated Japanese-English translations. As for the inscriptions of Mongolian Period, on which the researches are restricted only for the last year of the term (1998), we are obliged to only provide some revised edition of the texts already published. We are still continuing to edit these unpublished texts. As we are not disciplined for archaeological method, we can only give the informations on the present state and scenery of each historical site-that has or had respective inscription(s). We think they would be useful for making fresh interpretations of these texts. We have an intention to publish the photo-reproductions of all rubbings in the final report within five years.