THT 2691
| Known as: | THT 2691; Prelim. No. 5856 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2691". 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-tht2691 (accessed 06 Feb. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
Provenience | |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | late |
| Script: | cursive |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
| Text subgenre: | Account |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Scroll |
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
| a1 | wi kṣu ntsa k·e [mā] r· ne lā nti me wyai pi ku le |
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| a2 | – śna¯ ¯śs̝ |
| a3 | – – o piṃ ne ṣa lywe ma sa trai yṣa ṅkäṃ ke wye |
| a4 | /// – [ka] lā śiṃ /// /// ·ṃ ·o ·i – /// |
Transcription
| a1 | wi kṣuntsa k(ṣ)emār(cu)ne lānti mewyai pikule /// |
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| a2 | – śnaśṣ |
| a3 | – – opiṃne ṣalywe masa traiy ṣaṅkäṃ kewye /// |
| a4 | /// – kalāśiṃ /// /// ·ṃ ·o ·i – /// |
Translation
| a1 | In regnal year two of king Kṣemārcune, in the year of the tiger... |
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| a3 | Oil was spent for opiye; three pints, bovine. |
| a4 | ... spoonfuls... |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2691; TITUS: THT 2691
Miscellaneous
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2691; Ching 2010: 244-246; Ching and Ogihara 2010: 105
Bibliography
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Ching, Chao-jung, and Hirotoshi Ogihara. 2010. “Internal relationships and dating of the Tocharian B monastic accounts in the Berlin collection.” Studies on the Inner Asian Languages 25: 75–141. http://hdl.handle.net/11094/26143.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
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.
