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PK Bois B26

Known as:PK Bois B26; Pelliot Koutchéen Bois B26; LP 27
Cite this page as:"PK Bois B26". 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_b26 (accessed 17 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):3.0–2.5 × 9.88–9.83 cm
Number of lines:2

Transliteration

a1[r]· ·[c]· – [lā] nt· swa· n· t· [p]· kṣu[ṃ] ne o rśa
a2cā ka re ā kṣa ¤
b1skna ta tti klā ṣle

Transcription

a1n1n2 r(oc)c(epi) lānt(e) swa(r)n(a)t(e)p(i) kṣuṃne orśa
a2n2 cākare ākṣa ¤
b1sknatatti klāṣle

Commentary

Remarks

*thickness 0,59–0,31 cm

Philological commentary

n1Note the spelling roroccepi!
n2For the reading orśa cākare instead of a compound or-śacakare, see Ogihara and Pinault 2010: 186f.

References

Edition

Pinault 1987: 94

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.