THT 2720
| Known as: | THT 2720; Prelim. No. 5802 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2720". 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-tht2720 (accessed 17 Nov. 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 | – – ṣa lywe ma /// |
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| a2 | /// k[o] kne sā ṅki¯ ¯ś /// |
| a3 | /// kaṃ ne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk ke wye |
| a4 | /// ñcwa ri ke śla caṃ ndre lyā ka ¤ /// |
| a5 | /// ·e sā ṅki¯ ¯ś ṣa lywe ma /// |
| a6 | /// ·ai – – |
Transcription
| a1 | – – ṣalywe ma(sa) /// |
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| a2 | /// (śa)k okne sāṅkiś /// |
| a3 | /// (i)käṃne ṣaṅk kewyen1 /// |
| a4 | /// (pa)ñcwarike ślacaṃndre lyāka ¤/// |
| a5 | /// (n)e sāṅkiś ṣalywe ma(sa) /// |
| a6 | /// ·ai – – /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... oil was spent ... |
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| a2 | ... on day eighteen, ... for the saṅgha... |
| a3 | ... on day twenty: a pint, bovine... |
| a4 | ... The Pañcwarike Ślacandre saw it ¤... |
| a5 | ... oil for the saṅgha was spent... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Ching 2010: 253-254 says that what comes after this is 'wrongly patched' to our fragment. |
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References
Online access
IDP: THT 2720; TITUS: THT 2720
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2720; Ching 2010: 253-254
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
