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PK Bois A49

Known as:	PK Bois A49; Pelliot Koutchéen Bois A49; LP 129
Cite this page as:	"PK Bois A49". 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-pkbois_a49 (accessed 08 Nov. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shaldirang
Specific find spot:	Watchtower
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Laissez-passer
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on wood tablet
Form:	Woodslip
Size (h × w):	6.4–2.64 × 3.9–2.2 cm
Number of lines:	3

Transliteration

a1	/// [r](·) [c](·) [p]i lā nte
a2	/// rna t[e] [p]i kṣuṃ ne o rśa
a3	/// – – ā [kṣ]a

Transcription

a1	/// – (o)r(o)c(e)pi lānte
a2	/// (swa)rnatepi kṣuṃne orśa
a3	/// (ccākare) ākṣa

Commentary

Philological commentary

*	For the reading orś(a) (ccākare) instead of a compound or-śacakare, see Ogihara and Pinault 2010: 186f.

Remarks

*	thickness 0,45–0,32 cm

References

Edition

Pinault 1987: 120

Bibliography

Ogihara and Pinault 2010

Ogihara, Hirotoshi, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2010. “Un fragment de planchette de bois en tokharien B.” Journal Asiatique 298.1: 173–202.

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.