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THT 276.a

Known as:THT 276.a; B 276; Bleistiftnummer 2673
Cite this page as:"THT 276.a". 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-tht276 (accessed 18 May 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Specific find spot:Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:T III MQR 68
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Kāvya
Verse/Prose:verse
Meter:43434 (4x)

Object

Manuscript:THT 276-278
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:3

Images

Transliteration

lf5
a1pta rka¯ ¯s ce cme lṣe [s]· ///
a2o ko ṅke s̝pa ///
a3sa mai rī tta¯ ¯r kre¯ ¯nt s·[ā] ///
b1ss· • ñ[ä] kcy· ś[ā] mñe śai ///
b2śwā tsi yo ktse ka [l]·· ///
b3stau ki mā ka : śpa [l]·· ///

Transcription

lf5
Xxa1ptarkas ce cmelṣe ///
Xxa2oko ṅke ṣpä ///
Xxa3samai rīttar krent s·ā ///
12b17σ b1ss·
12cñäkcy(e) śāmñe ; śai /// 13σ
Xxb2śwātsi yoktse käl·· ///
13a14σ b3; stauki māka :
13bśpal·· /// 17σ

Commentary

Remarks

*This fragment was edited as "Nr. 276" (B 276) by Sieg and Siegling 1953: 168. The leaf number is on the recto!

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011L2
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 276a; TITUS: THT 276

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 168

Bibliography

IDP

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

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Tamai 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

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.