On the Old Uyghur Part of a Bilingual Inscription of the Petition Documents for Inviting Master Qinghe (清和真人) Preserved in the Yongle Gong

In the stele corridor of Yongle Temple in Ruicheng County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, China, there is a ‘Petition Inscription’ embedded in the wall. This inscription contains two Chinese petition texts, each followed by a line of Old Uyghur text, with an additional Old Uyghur line at the end. The first two Old Uyghur lines summarize their respective Chinese texts, while the third serves as a colophon, recording the name of the carver of the Old Uyghur part. Although the Chinese texts date to 1249, the engraving must be later, and the Old Uyghur part was likely added during this process.