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ISSN 2223-165X

V.I. ABAEV NORTH-OSSETIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL STUDIES

OF VLADIKAVKAZ SCIENCE CENTRE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

AND THE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA

ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

Tuallagov A. A. On the Some «Decipherments» of the Zelenčuk Epitaph // Izvestiya SOIGSI. 2015. Iss. 17 (56). P.5-18. Print

Keywords: Zelenčuk epitaph, epigraphy, paleography, linguistics, philology, deciphering, Alans

The article analyses one of examples of «deciphering» of the Zelenčuk inscription. As the result inconsistency between the real content of the inscription and its artificially constructed «decipherment», based on the voluntarily made up words, word-combinations and formulas, is fixed. A revealing distortion of the inscription’s signs, their attribution by random phonetic correspondences is marked. The causes of so inadequate and unscientific result of «deciphering» consist in ignorance or primordial acknowledge of the stages of the epigraphic monuments studying. As the author concludes, this «decipherment» must be categorically reject as unscientific.