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THT 147.4

Known as:	THT 147.4; B 147 Frgm. 4
Cite this page as:	"THT 147.4". 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-tht1474 (accessed 04 Dec. 2023).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Specific find spot:	Rothkuppelraum
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Script:	archaic
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Kāvya
Verse/Prose:	verse
Object
Manuscript:	THT 133-147
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī

Transliteration

a1	/// pe pa lywo rsa ñä [s̝s̝aṃ] ///
a2	/// mpe śce¯ ¯m kuce ///
b1	/// [ñcä] ma ñcce sta· k· ///
b2	/// lsknā lle ntaṃ¯ ¯ts yä snā ///

Transcription

a1	/// pepälyworsa ñäṣṣäṃ ///
a2	/// mpeścem kuce ///
b1	/// ñcä mäñc ce sta(ṅ)k· ///
b2	/// lsknāllentaṃts yäsnā ///

Commentary

Remarks

	This fragment was edited by Sieg and Siegling 1953: 77. As an exact description of the fragment is lacking, it is uncertain whether the fragment was edited in its entirety. The original manuscript is missing.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008b	A1
Malzahn 2007e	A4
Tamai 2011a	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 147/1-6; TITUS: THT 147

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 77

Bibliography

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Malzahn 2007e

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007e. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.

Peyrot 2008b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Tamai 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”