摘要
1948年,蘇聯科學院的一支古生物學考察隊在蒙古國南部塞福列(Sevrey)蘇木東南6公里處發現了兩塊殘碑。1969年蘇聯突厥學家克里亞施托爾内(C.Г.Кляшторный)實地考察時發現僅存一塊殘碑,是爲塞福列碑(Sevrey Inscription)[1]。
It is generally accepted that the Sevrey Inscription discovered in southern Mongolia,on one face of which Sogdian and Old Turkic texts were engraved vertically,was established during the Uyghur Qaghanate period.Nevertheless,scholars hold different opinions on its date due to the lack of interpretable content.Based on previous studies,this paper relates it to the"Uyghur Qaghan established stone inscription at the gate of the state"迴紇可汗銘石立國門recorded in Chinese sources.The Sevrey Inscription was likely to be established in the border area on the main route that connected Tang and the Uyghur Qaghanate in the 780 s by Dunmohe頓莫賀,the fourth Uyghur Qaghan.As a kind of political discourse,the inscription may have emphasized the contributions that Dunmohe had made to Tang Dynasty to improve bilateral relations and to win the support of Tang.This article discusses in detail the available traffic routes between Tang and the Uyghur Qaghanate after the Tibetan occupation of the Hexi Corridor河西走廊,mainly the east and the west Pitiquan鸊鵜泉routes.The location of the Sevrey Inscription,corresponding to the Huamen花門in Chinese sources,lies exactly on the west Pitiquan route which is the main route and fits perfectly with the description"the gate of the state".Both the writing orientation and the ductus of the Old Turkic scripts witnessed sharp changes between the Sine Usu Inscription(759)and the Qari Cor Tegin’s Epitaph(795)due to the Uyghur Qaghanate’s adoption of Manichaeism.The writing orientation of the Old Turkic part of the Sevrey inscription follows the early inscriptions of the Uyghur Qaghanate,while its ductus shows that it is later than those.These palaeographical features support the date proposed in this article.
出处
《唐研究》
2022年第1期443-463,共21页
Journal of Tang Studies
