Editing Kul Tigin (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Kultegin monument Mongolia.JPG|thumb|right|Kul Tigin stele.]]

He died suddenly on 27 February 731. A [[stele]] in memory of Kül Tigin, which included inscriptions in both [[Orkhon script|Turkic]] and [[Chinese language|Chinese]], was erected at his memorial complex of [[Khoshoo Tsaidam]] (more images from the site [[:Commons:Category:Khoshoo Tsaidam |here]]), at the present site of the [[Orkhon inscriptions]]{{clarify |Not also the site where they were discovered? |date= February 2025}}.<ref>Sören Stark, ''Die Alttürkenzeit in Mittel- und Zentralasien'' (Nomaden und Sesshafte, Band 6), Reichert: Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 76–78</ref> Kül-Tegin is also mentioned in the inscription erected in memory of his older brother [[Bilge Qaghan]] at the neighbouring site of [[Khöshöö-Tsaidam-1]].{{clarify |Really, a distinct site from "Khöshöö-Tsaidam"? |date= February 2025}}

{{quotation|Heavenly Divine Türk Bilgä Qaghan, I reign at this time.<br>Hear out my words, all my brothers, my sons, and also you, my tribe, my people:<br>Šad Pït lords of the south;<br>Tarqan Buyruq lords of the north;<br>Otuz . . .;{{sfn|Kamola|2023|p=18}}}}

His burial ceremony took place in 1 November 731. He was posthumously renamed '''Inanču Apa Yarğan Tarqan''' ({{langx|otk|𐰃𐰤𐰨𐰆:𐰯𐰀:𐰖𐰺𐰍𐰣:𐱃𐰺𐰴𐰣}}) by [[Bilge Qaghan]].

The head of the Kül Tigin sculpture in the Khöshöö-Tsaidam enclave in ([[Orkhon Province|Orkhon]], in northern [[Mongolia]]) carries a bird with wings spread like an eagle, personifying a [[raven]].<ref>Yu. Zuev, ''"Early Türks: Sketches of history and ideology"'', Almaty, Daik-Press, 2002, p. 25, {{Listed Invalid ISBN|9985-4-4152-9}}</ref> The head was found by the Czech archeologist Lumir Jisl during his 1957–1958 expedition to Mongolia.