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Shikchin 20
| Known as: | Shikchin 20 |
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| Cite this page as: | "Shikchin 20". 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-shikchin20 (accessed 13 May 2025). |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
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| Collection: | Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TA |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Painting caption |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on wall |
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| Form: | Graffito |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// [s]· lā || ·ā [k]· nt· wta[¯] [¯r] || s[e] bho /// |
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| a2 | /// [h]w· ka lytra || sa¯ ¯s śrā ddhe se(·) m·¯ ¯r || |
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Transcription
Translation
| a2 | ... stands. This believer [is] Sirmir (?). |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| * | Transliteration by Ogihara 2014: 121, translation based on him. The language of the first caption is unclear, the second is clearly TA. Ogihara compares the name to the Chinese proper name Sirmir attested in Uyghur documents (as per p.c. by Prof. Matsui and Dr. Kitsudo). |
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Remarks
| * | Two captions above a wall painting labeled "Tocharian Donors in Black Hats" on exhibition in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Ogihara 2014: 120, fn. 21). |
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| * | The press mark used here is provisorial. |
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References
Image
Dyakonova 2011: 346-349
Edition
Ogihara 2014: 120-121
Bibliography
Dyakonova 2011
Dyakonova, Nataliya. 2011. 俄羅斯艾爾米塔什博物馆藏锡克沁藝術品 – Shikchin art relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. Shanghai: Chinese Classics Publishing House.
Ogihara 2014
Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2014. “Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 103–29.
