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Dd 4
Known as: | Dd 4; Documents divers 4; find nr. 1243; inv. nr. [none] |
Cite this page as: | Melanie Malzahn. "Dd 4". 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-dd4 (accessed 10 Feb. 2025). |
Edition |
Editor: | Melanie Malzahn |
Date of online publication: | 2015-08-28 |
Provenience |
Main find spot: | Kucha |
Collection: | Musée Guimet (Paris) |
Language and Script |
Language: | TB |
Linguistic stage: | classical |
Add. linguistic characteristics: | hypercorrect |
Script: | classical |
Text contents |
Text genre: | Non-literary |
Text subgenre: | Graffito (object) |
Verse/Prose: | prose |
engraving
Form: | Graffito |
Size (h × w): | 29.5 × 17.0 cm |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Transliteration
a1 | /// pi ku lne wa ce meṃ ñe i kaṃ pi /// |
Transcription
Translation
a1 | In the year ..., in the second month, (on the) twenty-fi(fth day) ... /// |
Commentary
Linguistic commentary
* | Maybe meṃñe for the correct locative meñne is a hypercorrect spelling based on colloquial menne with depalatalization. |
Philological commentary
Remarks
* | Provenance probable of the region of Kuča. |
References
Edition
Pinault 1987: 182
Bibliography
Pinault 1987
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1987. “Épigraphie koutchéenne. I. Laissez-passer de caravanes. II. Graffites et inscriptions.” Sites divers de la région de Koutcha, Mission Paul Pelliot, Documents archéologiques, 8: 59–196 + XL.