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THT 2799

Known as:THT 2799; Prelim. No. 5877
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "THT 2799". 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-tht2799 (accessed 08 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

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/// – [ktr]· – ///
a2/// [ly]ā ka ¤ sa – ///
a3/// wi to¯ ¯m ///

Transcription

a1/// – ktr· – ///n1
a2/// lyāka ¤n2 sa(ṅkästere) ///
a3/// wi tom ///

Translation

a2... saw it ¤. The Saṅkastere...
a3... two pecks...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1One could restore śak traiyne.
n2The signature consists of the word ṣotri.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 2799; TITUS: THT 2799

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №2799

Bibliography

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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