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THT 2814

Known as:THT 2814; Prelim. No. 5827
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 16 Jan. 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

Transliteration

a1/// k· mp· [¯]s ka lwā wa pu tai yśe [m]e ///
a2/// pu tai yśe ntse ka pci ///

Transcription

a1/// k(a)mp(ā)sn1 kälwāwa putaiyśeme(ṃ) ///
a2/// putaiyśentse kapci ///

Translation

a1...I obtained cotton from Putaiyśe...
a2...Putaiyśe's finger-measure...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1This word also occurs in THT 2778. Ching 2017: 181 explains it as 'cotton'.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 2814; TITUS: THT 2814

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №2814; Ching 2010: 270; Ching 2017: 181

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Ching 2017

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.

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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