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Kizil Wood 3

Known as:	Kizil Wood 3
Cite this page as:	"Kizil Wood 3". 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-kizilwood3 (accessed 21 Apr. 2026).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Account
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	Assemblage VI
Material:	ink on wood tablet
Number of lines:	1

Transliteration

a1	/// śta rce pä le tne ke re pta ña kau śwā le ma lwe rku nti nta 6 trai wo la śku nti nta 4 | ñweṃ ne ku[ś]i ñe wa lo ś[w]ā le wa sa ma lwe rla śku nti nta 6 trai wo ku nti nta [2] ///

Transcription

a1	/// śtarce päletne kereptañakau śwāle malwer kuntinta 6 traiwo laś kuntinta 4 । ñweṃne kuśiñe walo śwāle wasa malwer laś kuntinta 6 traiwo kuntinta 2 ///

Translation

a1	/// On the 15th day of the 4th (month), Kereptañakau (gave) food. Milk (was spent): 6 pots; traiwo was spent: 4 pots. | On the last day of the month, the Kuchean king gave food. Milk was spent: 6 pots; traiwo was spent: [2] pots. ///

References

other

Ching 2010: 295-296

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.