An octagonal stone tomb with a Tatar inscription
Editorial contextNear the rivulet Jaman-Kul, Klaproth describes the oldest monument of Little Kabarda: an octagon of hewn stone about twelve feet high with an arched door, windows and a collapsed vault, ringed by about a hundred earth mounds. Its Tatar inscription names 'Ckoban-Chan son of Berdi-beg' and the Islamic year 860 (1455).
It is an edifice of hewn stone, and round it are about a hundred hillocks of earth called Bugri… The building is an octagon, each of its sides measuring six feet… On the stone inserted over the door is engraved a Tartar inscription in three lines, of which only these words ‘Ckoban-Chan son of Berdi-beg, in the year 860’ (A. D. 1455) are legible.
About Tatars of the Kipchak khanate
Continue in this sourceJulius Klaproth's travels in the Caucasus and Georgia1807 to 1808 · 14 passagesCircassian 'fault-fines' paid in goods and slaves
Editorial contextDuring the khan's war with the Kabardians, the main text says the Circassians in the khan's own army secretly told the Kabardians to attack the Tatars by night and promised to change sides. A footnote explains a custom of the khanate's relations with the Circassians: when they committed an offence, they paid the khan a fine called 'ayiplik' in goods, slave girls and slaves. It shows tribute, law and the slave trade in the khanate's frontier politics.
When the Circassians committed an offence, they used to present to the khans, under the name 'ayiplik' (fault-fine), goods, slave girls and slaves according to their offence.
Working translation
Original wording
چرکسلر بر قباحت ایشله دکلری زمان ( عیبلق ) نامیله خانلره قباحتلرینه کوره اموال ، جواری و کوله لر تقدیم ایدرلردی .
About Crimean Tatars and Circassians
Keep in mind
An explanatory footnote in the 1911 print; the custom is described in general terms without a date.
Transcribed from the page image (corpus OCR of this print is garbled).