THT 2722
| Known as: | THT 2722; Prelim. No. 5838 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2722". 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-tht2722 (accessed 15 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 | /// ·[tr]· – – – ·n· wi ka lā śśiṃ /// |
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| a2 | /// [ṣa]¯ ¯ṅk wa rwa ntsai sa co ki¯ ¯[ś] /// |
| a3 | /// – – klai na¯ ¯s co ka ṣe ṣa l··e |
| a4 | /// ¤ sa ṅka ste re śla caṃ ndre śa rsa ¤ |
| a5 | /// – [sa] ·i [ka] lā ··iṃ [i] ··ṃ – ·e /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// ·tr· – – – ·n· wi kalāśśiṃ ///n1 |
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| a2 | /// ṣaṅk warwantsaisa cokiś /// |
| a3 | /// – – klainas cokaṣe ṣal(yw)e /// |
| a4 | /// ¤saṅkästere ślacaṃndre śarsa ¤/// |
| a5 | /// – sa (w)i kalā(śś)iṃ i(kä)ṃ – (n)e /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... two spoonfuls... |
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| a2 | ... a pint. For the lamp for the warwantsa... |
| a3 | ... oil for the lamp of the women... |
| a4 | ... ¤. The Saṅkastere Ślacandre knew about it ¤ ... |
| a5 | ... two spoonfuls. On day twenty... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Ching's restoration [tr](ai meñantse) n(e) is not possible, since you would expect to see part of the 'ña' and the 'na' is too low to be an independent akṣara. |
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References
Online access
IDP: THT 2722; TITUS: THT 2722
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2722; Ching 2010: 266
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.
