The sourced Wikipedia account of the Orkhon inscriptions, covering the two principal steles raised in 732 for Kul Tigin and for Bilge Khagan, their Old Turkic runic script accompanied by Chinese text, their physical form on a carved stone turtle base, and their location in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia, a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape.
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Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkhon_inscriptions
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a collaboratively edited reference article, used here to corroborate the physical form, dating and UNESCO site status the atlas's existing primary-source entry (14148) does not itself describe. Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Bilge Khagan directly: "raised in 732 for Kul Tigin and for Bilge Khagan, their Old Turkic runic script accompanied by Chinese text, their physical form on a carved stone turtle base, and their location in the Orkhon..."
This source names Mongolia directly: "their location in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia, a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape."
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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