THT 2701
| Known as: | THT 2701; Prelim. No. 408 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2701". 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-tht2701 (accessed 22 Mar. 2025). |
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 | /// – ·ṃ ·ā [ka] ṣe ·[i] |
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| a2 | /// [ka] nti śke ñ·[¯] [¯m] i kaṃ – /// |
| a3 | /// – ṣṣu ki ṣai • pi ṅkte ka ·[i] /// |
| a4 | /// teṃ yi kne sa ṣka¯ ¯s ssu [w]· |
| a5 | /// yo lo ntiṃ | ntse ka pci |
| a6 | /// lā¯ ¯t o¯ ¯t – ke ne we¯ ¯t |
| a7 | /// ri tā ka – tte co sau /// |
| a8 | /// ·o /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// – ·ṃ ·ā ka ṣe ·i /// |
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| a2 | /// kantiśke ñ(e)m ikäṃ – /// |
| a3 | /// – ṣṣukin1n2 ṣai • piṅkte ka ·i /// |
| a4 | /// teṃ yiknesa ṣkas ssuw·n3 /// |
| a5 | /// yolontiṃ । ntse kapci |
| a6 | /// lāt ot – kene wet |
| a7 | /// ri tāka – – tte co sau /// |
| a8 | /// o /// |
Translation
| a2 | ?-kantiśken4 by name, twenty... |
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| a3 | ... was ...n5 . Fifth (month?)... |
| a4 | ...In this manner, six pigs (?)... |
| a5 | ... Yolonti's finger-measure. |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | The missing akṣara could be 'ka'. Ching has '[pu]', but the 'pa' isn't visible. |
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| n2 | The 'ṣṣu' is written with a horizontal line crossing through a vertical line, something that usually occurs in double 'kk'. |
| n3 | Ching suggests either suwañ or suwaṃ. |
| n4 | It could be the diminutive of kanti, but this wouldn't quite fit as a name. |
| n5 | The -ṣṣuki very much looks like an agent noun. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2701; TITUS: THT 2701
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2701; Ching 2010: 307
Bibliography
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
“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.
