THT 2814
| Known as: | THT 2814; Prelim. No. 5827 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2814". 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-tht2814 (accessed 17 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 | /// k· mp· [¯]s ka lwā wa pu tai yśe [m]e /// |
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| a2 | /// pu tai yśe ntse ka pci /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// k(a)mp(ā)sn1 kälwāwa putaiyśeme(ṃ) /// |
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| a2 | /// putaiyśentse kapci /// |
Translation
| a1 | ...I obtained cotton from Putaiyśe... |
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| a2 | ...Putaiyśe's finger-measure... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | This word also occurs in THT 2778. Ching 2017: 181 explains it as 'cotton'. |
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References
Online access
IDP: THT 2814; TITUS: THT 2814
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2814; Ching 2010: 270; Ching 2017: 181
Bibliography
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Ching, Chao-jung. 2017. 吐火罗语世俗文献与古代龟兹历史 – Tocharian secular texts and the history of Ancient Kucha. Beijing: Peking University Press.
“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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
