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THT 2618

Known as:THT 2618
Cite this page as:Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 2618". 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-tht2618 (accessed 07 Feb. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Hannes A. Fellner

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:very archaic

Text contents

Title of the work:Translation of a Sanskrit medical text
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Medicine/Magic
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:THT 2668-2673
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):1.7 × 1.4 cm
Number of lines:3+

Images

Transliteration

a1/// – ///
a2/// – n·[a] ne – ///
b1/// ·m· [s]· ///
b2/// ·i y·[a] ///

Transcription

a1/// – ///
a2/// n·a ne – ///
b1/// ·m· ///
b2/// ·i y·a ///

Commentary

Philological commentary

*Transliteration pace Tamai 2007a.

Remarks

*One of the most archaic Tocharian texts; on the script type, see Malzahn 2007a: 267 and 274.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Malzahn 2007aA1
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 2618; TITUS: THT 2618

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №2618; Peyrot 2014a

Bibliography

IDP

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

Malzahn 2007a

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007a. “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 2014a

Peyrot, Michaël. 2014a. “La relation entre la chronologie du tokharien B et la paléographie.” In Lecteurs et copistes dans les traditions manuscrites iraniennes, indiennes et centrasiatiques, edited by Nalini Balbir and Maria Szuppe, 12:121–47. Eurasian Studies. Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino.

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.

Tamai 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. 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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.