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A 440

Known as:	A 440; THT 1074
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 440". 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-a440 (accessed 10 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Khočo (Dakianus)
Expedition code:	T I D31
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Object
Manuscript:	A 436-445
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	/// [ka] lka raṃ ca¯ ¯m mlaṃ a ne r[i] tā¯ ¯t ///
a2	/// lmeṃ o si tṣiṃ saṃ va rpā pe ku¯ ¯nt ///
a3	/// o si¯ ¯t wä¯ ¯l k· ki sāṃ • pa ñka ///
a4	/// ca mkra ñcäṃ ///
a5	/// striṃ¯ ¯śä ///
a6	///
b1	///
b2	///
b3	///
b4	/// ¯t [t]a – [ma] śśā¯ ¯l sku ntu [wä] ///
b5	/// [wä¯] [¯lts] – [ṣṣā]¯ ¯ñä ti n· ri ///
b6	/// [ā] ñmā ri sā¯ ¯nt mā pe nu [e¯] [¯l] ///

Transcription

a1	/// kalkaräṃ cam mlaṃ ane ritāt ///
a2	/// lmeṃ ositṣiṃ saṃvar pāpekunt ///
a3	/// osit wäl k(a)kisāṃ • päñ kä ///
a4	/// cam krañcäṃ ///
a5	/// striṃś ///
a6	///
b1	///
b2	///
b3	///
b4	/// t tä – maśśāl skuntu wä ///
b5	/// wälts – ṣṣāñ tin(ā)ri ///
b6	/// āñmā risānt mā penu el ///

Translation

a2	... the written restraint of moral behaviour

Commentary

Remarks

	Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009.
	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).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1074; TITUS: THT 1074

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 240; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 240

Translations

Carling 2000: a1 (343)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

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.”