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A 138

Known as:	A 138; THT 771
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 138". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?m-a138 (accessed 08 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 96.09
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Object
Manuscript:	A 89-143
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

Images

Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1	///
a2	/// ki : 1 || tma¯ ¯s̝ na ·e ///
a3	/// ṭi wa su ta mmaṃ tne
a4	/// [y]u¯ ¯m ā s[n]ä – la ///
a5	/// ¯k kā tke nā¯ ¯s pro[¯] [¯p] ///
a6	/// ltā [t]wä ṅku [ṣ]ā ma [ñ]i ///
b1	/// || ā ytā tsu ne y· ///
b2	/// ·k·[¯] [¯t] wa s̝ta s̝la¯ ¯cä : ///
b3	/// r[i] sā¯ ¯t ku[¯] [¯s] ā ///
b4	/// ka ṣṣi nyo : 2 || tma¯ – ///
b5	/// [c]yo kā¯ ¯s le tse¯ – ///
b6	///

Transcription

a1	///
a2	/// ki : 1 ॥ tmäṣ na ·e ///
a3	/// ṭi wasu täm mäṃt ne
a4	/// yum āsnä – la ///
a5	/// k kātkenās prop ///
a6	/// l tātwäṅku ṣāmañi ///
b1	/// ॥ āytātsuney· ///
b2	/// ·k· t waṣtäṣ läc : ///
b3	/// risāt kus ā ///
b4	/// käṣṣinyo : 2 ॥ tmä – ///
b5	/// c yokās letse – ///
b6	///

Commentary

Remarks

	Transcription and references have been transferred from the "Text and Reference Database of the Tocharian A Language" (Gerd Carling Lund University) (funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and SCAS).
	Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 771; TITUS: THT 771

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 73; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 73

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921a. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”