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PK NS 268

Known as:PK NS 268
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "PK NS 268". 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-pkns268 (accessed 11 Dec. 2023).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz

Provenience

Main find spot:Duldur-Akhur
Collection:Musée Guimet (Paris)

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:late
Script:cursive

Text contents

Text genre:Non-literary
Text subgenre:Letter
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Scroll

Transliteration

a1sa ma nta ti rne i ///
b1/// – po wä nta rwa ne spä

Transcription

a1 samantatirne i(käṃ)n1 ///
b1 /// – po wäntarwane spän2 ///

Translation

a1 In Samantatir, on day twenty...
b1 /// ... trusting/disappearing in all matters...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1 The paper of this document is very thin, so the akṣaras on the other side are very visible and often times merge with the akṣaras on this side. e.g. the i here has a lot of ink surrounding it, but this is just the ā-diacritic on the other side being visible.
n2 This is likely a form of spärk- 'disappear' or spänt- 'trust'.

References

Edition

Ogihara 2015b: 87-88

Bibliography

Ogihara 2015b

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2015b. “Kuchean secular documents in the Pelliot Koutchéen Nouvelle Série.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 16: 81–105.