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PK réserve 1517 B 3.2

Known as:PK réserve 1517 B 3.2; Pelliot Koutchéen réserve 1517 B III,II; LP 2
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Provenience

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):4.2–4.1 × 9.88–9.5 cm
Number of lines:4

Transliteration

a1śtwe¯ ¯r o ksai· śtwe¯ ¯r te pa rra ptā rka
a2i kaṃ ṣe kṣuṃ ntsa wä rsa ññe meṃ ne i
a3kaṃ o kne swa rna te pi kṣu· ne o rśa c[ā]
a4ka re ā kṣa
b1skna ta tti klā ṣle

Transcription

a1śtwer oksai(ṃ) śtwer te parra ptārka
a2ikäṃ ṣe kṣuṃntsa wärsaññe meṃne i¬
a3¬käṃ okne swarnatepi kṣu(ṃ)ne orśa cā¬
a4¬kare ākṣa
b1sknatatti klāṣle

Commentary

Philological commentary

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

Remarks

*thickness 0,66–0,32 cm

References

Edition

Lévi 1913: 316-317; Pinault 1987: 86

Bibliography

Lévi 1913

Lévi, Sylvain. 1913. “Le « tokharien В », langue de Koutcha.” Journal Asiatique 11e série, 2: 311–80.

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.