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THT 2749 and 2818

Known as:THT 2749 and 2818; THT 2749; Prelim. No. 5872; THT 2818; Prelim. No. 5826
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "THT 2749 and 2818". 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-tht2749 (accessed 24 Jun. 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

Transliteration

a1/// ·t· wyai kṣu tta¯ ¯r ya¯ ¯p ///
a2/// [k]ne ñu śā mna sa śwai yly❠¯ṅk ya¯ ¯p ·e – ·e ///
a3/// [o] [k]o – tu[n]e¯ ¯k ma¯ ¯nt yi rpse [m]· ///

Transcription

a1/// ·t· wyai kṣuttär yap ///
a2/// kne ñu śāmnasa śwaiylyāṅk yap ·e·e ///
a3/// okotunek mant yirpsem· ///

Translation

a1... expended small barley...
a2... on day... for nine people barley as grain tax...
a3... ripened... therein we oversee thus: ...

References

Online access

IDP: THT 2749, THT 2818; TITUS: THT 2749, THT 2818

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №2749; Ching 2010: 287; Ching and Ogihara 2010: 94

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Ching and Ogihara 2010

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.

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Tamai 2007a

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.

TITUS

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.