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PK Bois B65

Known as:	PK Bois B65; Pelliot Koutchéen Bois B65; LP 54
Cite this page as:	"PK Bois B65". 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_b65 (accessed 21 Apr. 2026).
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):	1.75–1.54 × 6.01–5.89 cm
Number of lines:	1

Transliteration

a1	s[r]śa cā ka r· ā kṣ· [•] ///
b1	sk[n]a ta tti ///

Transcription

a1	n1 srśa cākar(e) ākṣ(a) • ///
b1	sknatatti ///

Commentary

Remarks

*	thickness 0,42–0,38 cm

Philological commentary

n1	For the reading orśa cākare instead of a compound or-śacakare, see Ogihara and Pinault 2010: 186f.

References

Edition

Pinault 1987: 101

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.