THT 2844
| Known as: | THT 2844; Prelim. No. 4808 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2844". 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-tht2844 (accessed 25 Jan. 2026). |
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[i]¯ ¯ś ṣa lywe ma sa ṣa¯ ¯ṅk ke wye i kaṃ ṣu kne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk ke wye ÷ /// |
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| a2 | /// – [w]ye i kaṃ ñu ne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk [k]e wye ñweṃ ne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk [k]· /// |
| a3 | /// sa ṅka ste re ā rya wi re śa rsa [¤] /// |
| a4 | /// l[y]·[e] wi ṣa ·ṃ /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (sāṅ)kiś ṣalywe masa ṣaṅk kewye ikäṃ ṣukne ṣaṅk kewye ÷ /// |
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| a2 | /// (ke)wye ikäṃ ñune ṣaṅk kewye ñweṃne ṣaṅk k(ewye) /// |
| a3 | /// saṅkästere āryawire śarsa ¤/// |
| a4 | /// (ṣa)ly(w)e wi ṣa(ṅkä)ṃ /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... oil for the saṅgha was spent: a pint, bovine. On day twenty seven: a pint, bovine ÷... |
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| a2 | ... bovine. On day twenty nine: a pint, bovine. On the last day of the month: a pint, bovine... |
| a3 | ... The Saṅkastere Aryawire knew about it ¤... |
| a4 | ... oil: two pints... |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2844; TITUS: THT 2844
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2844; Ching 2010: 258
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
