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PK Bois B7

Known as:	PK Bois B7; Pelliot Koutchéen Bois B7; LP 9
Cite this page as:	"PK Bois B7". 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_b7 (accessed 17 Aug. 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):	3.4–3.35 × 9.53–9.5 cm
Number of lines:	3

Transliteration

a1	ptā rka o· ṣa¯ ¯p mā ta rka na¯ ¯t i kaṃ kṣ[u]ṃ ntsa [p]i [ṅ]·e
a2	meṃ ne i kaṃ wi ne o ro cce pi lā nte s[w]a r·a t[e]
a3	pi kṣuṃ ne o rśa cā ka re ā kṣa
b1	skna ta tti klā ṣle

Transcription

a1	ptārka o(ṃ)ṣap mā tärkanat ikäṃ kṣuṃntsa piṅ(kc)e
a2	meṃne ikäṃ wine oroccepi lānte swar(n)ate¬
a3	¬pi kṣuṃne orśa cākare ākṣa
b1	sknatatti klāṣle

Commentary

Philological commentary

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

Remarks

*	thickness 0,45–0,39 cm

References

Edition

Pinault 1987: 88

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.