THT 2802 and 2905
| Known as: | THT 2802 and 2905; THT 2802; Prelim. No. 5775; THT 2905; Prelim. No. 5760 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2802 and 2905". 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-tht2802 (accessed 18 Sep. 2024). |
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 | /// [m]· [ly]· ka – /// |
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| a2 | [i] [ka] – – tru kā le śwā kte /// |
| a3 | ka nti ne yi kṣye o kto¯ ¯m ÷ |
| a4 | pa ñcwa ri ke ta rma so me lyā [ka] /// |
| a5 | i kaṃ trai yne tru kā le /// |
| a6 | ṅkäṃ ka nti ne āṃ [ne] |
| a7 | /// – – – /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (tarmaso)m(e) ly(ā)ka – /// |
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| a2 | ikä(ṃ) (wine) trukāleś wākte /// |
| a3 | kantine yikṣye ok tom ÷ /// |
| a4 | pañcwarike tarmasome lyāka /// |
| a5 | ikäṃ traiyne trukāle(ś)n1 /// (ṣa)- |
| a6 | -ṅkäṃ kantine āṃne /// |
| a7 | /// – – – /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... Tarmasome saw it... |
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| a2 | On day twenty two, wākte for apportionment... |
| a3 | Flour as bread: eight pecks ÷... |
| a4 | The Pañcwarike Tarmasome saw it... |
| a5 | On day twenty three, ... for apportionment... |
| a6 | ... (pints). As bread, Aṃne... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Restoration after a2 trukāleś. |
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| n2 | Ching argues that āṃne is a personal name also attested in THT 2901. However, after kantine, one would expect either something like śwālene or kantine yikṣye. An anthroponym is unexpected. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2802, THT 2905; TITUS: THT 2802, THT 2905
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2802; Ching 2010: 282
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.
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