THT 2678
| Known as: | THT 2678 |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 2678". 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-tht2678 (accessed 18 Nov. 2025). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Expedition code: | T III MQ 50 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
| Script: | very archaic |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Canonical or literary text |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Doctrine |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 2678 and 3971 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Size (h × w): | 3.5 × 4.9 cm |
| Number of lines: | 4+ |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// – c· n· kus· – [w]· [g]· m· ṣ[o] /// |
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| a2 | /// ·w· ge mā ṣo mpo¯ ¯u na tu e m[p]·eṃ ·e /// |
| a3 | /// ·[i] rvva ns̝a cä pu d[ñ]ä k·e – /// |
| a4 | /// ·i ·ä /// |
| b1 | /// [ṅ]w[e] ra a nai kta ·k· /// |
| b2 | /// ññai ke s̝s̝aṃ pa lsko to k(·) /// |
| b3 | ·e (– –) ·i (–) ·e ·i ·e |
Transcription
| a1 | /// – c·n· kus· – w·g· m· ṣo /// |
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| a2 | /// w·ge mā ṣompouna tu emp(r)eṃ ·e /// |
| a3 | /// (n)irvvanṣäcä pudñäk(t)e – /// |
| a4 | /// ·i ·ä /// |
| b1 | /// ṅwe ra a nai kta ·k· /// |
| b2 | /// ññai keṣṣäṃ pälsko to k· /// |
| b3 | /// ·e (– –) ·i (–) ·e ·i ·e /// |
Commentary
Remarks
| The transliteration/transcription is taken from Peyrot 2014a: 143. | |
| One of the most archaic Tocharian texts, but not belonging to the medical ms. THT 2668-2673; this ms. is even older than THT 2668-2673 because of the leftward orientation of 〈e〉; on the script type, see Malzahn 2007a: 267 and 274. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Malzahn 2007a | A1 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2678; TITUS: THT 2678
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2678
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
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, 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, 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, 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.
