Researchos on the Sites with Old Inscriptions in Mongolia

在这个项目中，我们对蒙古的一些主要历史遗迹和碑文进行了全面的研究，这对研究突厥人(6-8 cc.)、维吾尔人(8-9 cc.)的历史是最重要的。和蒙古帝国(公元前13-14年)。蒙古政府最近的政策变化使我们能够接触到这些遗址和碑文。从1996年到1998年，每年夏天我们都会派出5到6名成员前往蒙古，为期一个月或更长时间。我们从每个用古代突厥语、Sogdian、蒙古语、波斯语和汉语写的碑文中各取了两组墨迹拓片。包括一些新发现的。我们在获得许可的必要程序后，将其中一组带到了日本。这些拓片使我们能够改进前人发表的碑文文本。在这份报告中，我们提供了关于吐鲁克-维吾尔时期的古代突厥语和Sogdian碑文的最新文本版本。带有完整注释的日语-英语翻译。至于蒙古文时期的铭文，研究范围仅限于1998年的最后一年，我们只能提供一些已经出版的版本的修订本。我们仍在继续编辑这些未发表的文本。由于我们不受考古方法的训练，我们只能给出每一个有或有各自铭文的古迹的现状和风景的信息(S)。我们认为，它们将有助于对这些文本作出新的解释。我们打算在五年内在最后报告中公布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 We are still continuing to edit these unpublished texts.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.