Abstract
The article contains a translation of the Chinese part of a bilingual Sino-Turkic tombstone (epitaph) found in the moderncity of Xi'an in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The inscription was composed in honor of the Uyghur prince Qarïčor tegin, who died in 795 in the imperial palace in Chang'an, the western capital of the Tang Empire (618–907). TheChinese-Turkic bilingual inscription contains important biographical information which, when placed in the context of thepolitical history of the Uyghur Khaganate (744–840), the history of its relations with the Tang Empire (618–907), and thegenealogy of the Uyghur rulers, sheds light on the most important event in the history of the Khaganate – the change ofthe ruling Yaglakar dynasty to the Ediz dynasty, which was not adequately covered in the stone monuments of the Uyghurera. The inscription's historical and cultural significance is due to its representation of another example of the Turkic runicscript, composed outside the Uyghur Khaganate. The inscription has survived intact, unlike the stone monuments in thesteppe that were mostly destroyed by natural phenomena.