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PK LC 8
| Known as: | PK LC 8 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 8". 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-pklc8 (accessed 11 Dec. 2023). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
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Provenience |
| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Letter |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Material: |
on paper |
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| Number of lines: | 2 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | [ś]·[¯] [¯r] ·ṣu· ·t[s]· /// |
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| a2 | [kweṃ] [t]o ·o ·e [w]e r·e [n]·e po k[k]e ṣṣeṃ cā neṃ o kyi ltse so lme ma ṣṣa • sa ma nta ti r[ṣ]e y[o] /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 |
In regnal year four... |
| a2 |
(Someone) paid (lit. made) the coins as rent for the garden of Kweṃtoko fullyn1 , eight thousand. ... of Samantatir ... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 |
solme yām- seems to be a set phrase meaning 'make ready', or in this case 'to pay off fully', cf. PK DA M 507.19 a6, PK DA M 507.37 and 36 a19. |
References
Edition
Ching 2010: 230; Pinault 1994d: 100
Bibliography
Ching 2010
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD thesis, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Pinault 1994d
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1994d. “Textes économiques koutchéens.”
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