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THT 2808

Known as:THT 2808
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "THT 2808". 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-tht2808 (accessed 06 Oct. 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:Letter
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Scroll

Images

Transliteration

a1/// pra ·ñi nte ne | ñi ci ñi kci pa nū rā ni ñe [n]e tro tro tro tro tro tro ñau ·ñe ni ne jñā na to – ///
a2/// ·u – śo l·aiṃ ·i – ·e – – – – [k]i nt· [tu] ñi la ro mñe nta ka po ynā mñe nta yu ki ñcai ñā [sa] ri tau – – [ceṃ] pra tiṃ ntsa pre ksau yṣū – – yu ki ñcai – – – – ·e ñe ṣe pra t· ntsa ///

Transcription

a1/// pra ·ñi nte neñi ci ñi kci pa ni ñe ne tro tro tro tro tro tro ñau ·ñe ni ne jñāna to – ///
a2/// ·uśo l·aiṃ ·i·e – – – – ki nt· tu ñi laromñenta po ynāmñenta yukiñcai ñā sa ritau – – ceṃ pratiṃntsa preksau yṣū – – yukiñcai – – – – ·e ñe ṣe prat(i)ntsa

Commentary

Philological commentary

This document is very peculiar. The first line doesn't make any sense. The second line has the phrase preksau yṣū... where the second word could be a form of yṣuwar 'friendly; friendliness'. This is reminiscent of the letters, cf. THT 492 a1 Āryawarmeṃ tsamo yṣuwarsa prekṣäṃ. This document could therefore be a letter. The writing ductus also bears some similarity to THT 2805. The 'ra's are L-shaped in both documents. However, they weren't written by the exact same hand.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 2808; TITUS: THT 2808

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №2808

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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