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THT 264

Known as:THT 264; B 264; Bleistiftnummer 2661
Cite this page as:"THT 264". 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-tht264 (accessed 30 Apr. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Specific find spot:Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:T III MQR 90
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
Meter:4335 (4x)

Object

Manuscript:THT 252-265
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Images

Transliteration

a1/// ·ñ· ṣe [ntā] ///
a2/// a rta lle ṣe¯ ¯k cä ñcre r· ki [tā] [ka] [r]··· ///
a3/// ka sko ṣre ki we l·e meṃ ṣe ///
a4/// ·ne [p]i ko e ntse ///
b2/// m· – ṣlñe [o] ///
b3/// || ka ru ṇa pra [l]· [p]n· || ///
b4/// ke w[r]o [cc]e pi l[ā] nte cpi [p]r· – ·i ///
b5/// [r]·[e] kuse ·ai ///

Transcription

Xx/// ·ñ· ṣe ntā ///
Xxa2/// artalle ṣek cäñcre r(e)ki tākar··· ///
Xxa3/// käskoṣ reki wel(ñ)emeṃ ṣe ///
Xxa4/// ·ne piko entse ///
Xxb2/// ṣlñe o ///
b3/// ॥ karuṇapral(ā)pn(e)
Xx/// b4/// ke wroccepi lānte cpi pr··i /// b5/// r·e kuse ·ai ///

Commentary

Remarks

*Lines a5 and b1 are lost.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A1
Tamai 2011C1
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 264; TITUS: THT 264

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 161

Bibliography

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. 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 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.