THT 2709
| Known as: | THT 2709; Prelim. No. 5833 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2709". 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-tht2709 (accessed 11 Dec. 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
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ña ntse ne [r]i me /// |
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| a2 | /// ·w· – – laṃ ṣā nte i kaṃ wi i kaṃ ṣe uw· t· /// |
| a3 | /// ṣe ṣṣe o ttā¯ ¯r po kai ṣe uwā ta ne wi ya /// |
| a4 | /// n· ·e¯ ¯ś yo¯ ¯k ma sa ka /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (me)ñantsene rime(ṃ)n1 /// |
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| a2 | /// ·w· – – laṃṣānte ikäṃ wi ikäṃ ṣe uw(ā)t(ane) /// |
| a3 | /// ṣeṣṣe ottār pokai ṣe uwātane wi ya /// |
| a4 | /// n· ·eś yok masa kä(nte) /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... On day of the month... from the town... |
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| a2 | ... they made ...: twenty two; twenty one ᵤwātane... |
| a3 | ... eight each an ell. One ᵤwātane, two... |
| a4 | ... wool was spent: a hundred... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Ching argues that this akṣara can be read either as '[r]i' or '[k]i'. It could then either be read as rimeṃ 'from the town' or kime, a name, cf. kimña. |
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References
Online access
IDP: THT 2709; TITUS: THT 2709
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2709; Ching 2010: 270-271
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
