THT 253
| Known as: | THT 253; B 253; Bleistiftnummer 2635 |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 253". 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-tht253 (accessed 12 Jul. 2025). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Specific find spot: | Rothkuppelraum |
| Expedition code: | T III MQR 85 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Kāvya |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 252-265 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
Images
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| lf | – |
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| b1 | – – ñcpa lsko pa lkmo s̝[p]a¯ ¯k pa lle [n]·e /// |
| b2 | – [ś]co pa ññä nme cce pa lsko ntā pa /// |
| b3 | – k·e ścmā ma nta ñe m[k]cā /// |
| b4 | ma [n]·[i] [t]·· stā [k](·)e ·au ·ā¯ – ci w· n[a] skau /// |
| b5 | /// |
Transcription
| lf | – |
| b1 | – – ñc pälsko pälkmo ṣpä-k pällen·e /// |
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| b2 | – śco päññänm= ecce pälskontā pä /// |
| b3 | – k·eśc mā mäntañem kcā /// |
| b4 | män·i t··stā k·e ·au ·ā – ci w(i)naskau /// |
| b5 | n1 /// |
Commentary
Remarks
| The recto is badly abraded. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | The line is abraded. |
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Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Peyrot 2008 | A1 |
| Tamai 2011 | C1 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
Edition
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.
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.
