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THT 2830

Known as:THT 2830; Prelim. No. 985
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "THT 2830". 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-tht2830 (accessed 10 Nov. 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

a1k· nts· – ///
a2sa ṅkrā mne lye kśai ṣka ///
a3i ma ra kai pau [k]e ·e ///
a4[sa] ·ā ///

Transcription

a1k·nts(e) – ///
a2saṅkrāmne lyekśai ṣka(s) ///
a3imarakain1n2 pauke(ṣṣ)en3 ///
a4sa ·ā ///

Translation

a2In the monastery, lyekśiye-millet: six...
a3... of rent...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1The 'r' is L-shaped, like in THT 2805 and 2808. However, the 'ka's look quite different.
n2A hapax legomenon. Meaning and derivation unclear.
n3The 't' in pautke is missing here.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 2830; TITUS: THT 2830

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №2830

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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