IOL Toch 258
| Known as: | IOL Toch 258; H 150.103, B 495, THT 495. D.103 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "IOL Toch 258". 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-ioltoch258 (accessed 02 Jul. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
Provenience | |
| Collection: | British Library (London) |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
| Text subgenre: | Letter |
Object | |
| Material: | on paper |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ko yṣi śke ṣa mā neṃ lye we ma – [ku] [lā] [s]· ñeṃ e ñci la ne tā si yā tka st· ña ke «ṣa» mā ni |
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| a2 | /// ta kā sta ·e ri sa te [w]e [ñ]ā sta [ko] sta¯ ¯ñä pe [r]i mā ā yu to¯ ¯t [ṣa] mā ne mā ṣe ske |
| a3 | /// ¯śä śo [mo] – ce meṃ lyu [to] wa ·au we ñā sta [ta] [r]ma c· ndre tse – – ne cā n· ce meṃ |
| a4 | [w]· ñi su ṣe me ·ā – mā w[a] sa ñ· [ñk]· mā śaṃ[¯] [¯p] ñi cā ne mā ai¯ ¯t – – ku tsau¯ ¯śä te¯ ¯p |
| b1 | ya ma ske ma¯ ¯r ce yna cā neṃ lau c[ä] rkā wa¯ ¯ś [p]o pre ksau śmeṃ po śi ṅka¯ ¯s ai skau |
Transcription
| a1 | /// koyṣiśke ṣamāneṃ lyewema(ne) ku lā s· ñeṃ eñciläne tāsi yātkast(a) ñake ṣamānin1 |
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| a2 | /// takāsta (p)erisa te weñāsta kos tañ peri mā āyu tot ṣamāne mā ṣeske |
| a3 | /// °ś śomo – cemeṃ lyuto wa ·au weñāsta tarmac(a)ndretse – – ne cān(e) cemeṃ |
| a4 | /// w(e)ñi su ṣeme (c)ā(ne) mā wasan2 ñ· ñk· mā śaṃpn3 ñi cāne mā ait – – kutsau-śn4 tep |
| b1 | yamaskemar ceyna cāneṃ lau cärkāwa-ś po preksau-śmeṃ po śiṅkas aiskau /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... sending the monk Koyṣiśke... you ordered to impose the levy on ... by name. Now the monks... |
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| a2 | ... you were... regarding the debt you said this: As long I will not pay your debt, so long a single monk... |
| a3 | ... the man from which... you said... of Tarmacandre... money from which... |
| a4 | ... (If) you do not [give me the money], (then) a tep to K[u]tsau* |
| a4 | ... he shall say: He didn't give me a single coin. Now... if you do not give me a coin, i will write a tep to Kutsau... |
| b1 | will I make. ... |
| b1 | ... I have lend you these coins. I ask them all back from you. I give all to the Śaṅkesn5 ... |
Other
| a1 | … you ordered to take hold of … (Peyrot 2013b: 433) |
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| a2+ | … on account of the debt you said this: «As long as I don't give you the debt [back], so long the monk … not alone …» … you said (Peyrot 2013b: 710) |
| b1 | (As long as) you don't give me the cāne I will kuts you and make you a nep. I left to you all these cānes; I request them all from you, I give you śiṅkas … (Peyrot 2013b: 709) |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| The recto is upside down, i.e. the Schnurloch is on the right recto (contrary to normal use), and verso it is on the left; the right margin of the recto and the left margin of the verso are preserved. | |
| The author of this letter seems to be a creditor who now demands his money. | |
| n1 | a cross added above, 'ṣa' below. |
| n2 | CEToM: mā w· su. The 'u' in 'su' sppears to be nothing more than a tear in the paper. |
| n3 | Could also be śaṃ[¯] [¯M] |
| n4 | Ching 2010: 138 tentatively explains this term as the Chinese official 户曹 'Office of Household Registration'. |
| n5 | Above the 'ṅk', there is no diacritic visible. Maybe it's just a sribal error. |
References
Miscellaneous
Online access
TITUS: THT 495; IDP: IOL Toch 258
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 306-307; Broomhead 1962: 110; Peyrot 2007: №258; Krause 1952: 138
Translations
Peyrot 2013b: a1 (433), a2 a3 (710), b1 (709)
Bibliography
Broomhead, J.W. 1962. “A textual edition of the British Hoernle, Stein and Weber Kuchean manuscripts. With transliteration, translation, grammatical commentary and vocabulary. I = Edition.” PhD, Cambridge: Trinity College.
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Krause, Wolfgang. 1952. Westtocharische Grammatik, Band I. Das Verbum. Heidelberg: Winter.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2007. “An edition of the Tocharian fragments IOL Toch 1 – IOL Toch 822 in the India Office Library.” International Dunhuang Project. 2007. http://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_cat.a4d?shortref=Peyrot_2007.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.
