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THT 1487

Known as:THT 1487; Prelim. No. 335; Pencil No. 2272
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "THT 1487". 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-tht1487 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:Š 33/34
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī

Images

Transliteration

a1/// ā rśi¯ ¯ñä wtā¯ ¯k ca m· ///
a2/// kyä rśā r[tma] ṣsa mwä lpre ly·· ///
a3/// [wi] ki pku¯ ¯l lyä¯ ¯m ā sā [n]· ///
a4/// [ā] ttā yño mtā¯ ¯k [s]·· ///
b1/// [lm]· [sa¯] [¯cä] ca ma kko nä [kt]· [ka] – ///
b2/// [ñ]· pku¯ ¯l iśai yā mtsā ta¯ ¯m : ///
b3/// rśi ype ca¯ ¯s̝ : śi me ño ///
b4/// kt[ṣ]aṃ ra tnā rjuṃ ño¯ ¯m : – ///

Transcription

a1/// ārśiñ wtā-k cam· ///
a2/// k yärśār tmäṣ säm wäl pre ly·· ///
a3/// wiki pkul lyäm āsān(aṃ) ///
a4/// āttāy ñom tāk s(num) ///
b1/// lm· sac cam-äk kon-äk ka – ///
b2/// (pa)ñ pkul iśai yāmtsāt-äm : ///
b3/// (ā)rśi ype caṣ : śime ño(m) ///
b4/// (tā)k tṣaṃ ratnārjuṃ ñom : – ///

Translation

a1... The Agneans again...
a2... around... then this king... away (?)...
a3... for twenty year he sat on the throne...
a4... was Attay by name. Perfume (?)...
b1... to... on that very day...
b2... he ruled over them (?) for five years...
b4... was... here Ratnārjuṃ by name...

Commentary

Philological commentary

This fragment and A 383 and THT 1488 belong together.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1487; TITUS: THT 1487

Edition

Ogihara 2014: 106-107; Tamai 2007a: №1487

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2014

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2014. “Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 103–29.

Tamai 2007a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2007a. “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan collection. 2007. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.

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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.