THT 2854
| Known as: | THT 2854; Prelim. No. 5953 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2854". 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-tht2854 (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
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 | /// – [ka]· ṣ· ne se /// |
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| a2 | /// i kaṃ trai yne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk [k]· /// |
| a3 | /// i kaṃ pi śne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk ke wye /// |
| a4 | /// – ñc·a ri ke mo kṣa wi re lyā ka ¤ – /// |
| a5 | /// ·[ki¯] ¯ś ṣa lywe /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (i)kä(ṃ) ṣ(e)ne se /// |
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| a2 | /// ikäṃ traiyne ṣaṅk k(ewye) /// |
| a3 | /// ikäṃ piśne ṣaṅk kewye /// |
| a4 | /// (pa)ñc(w)arike mokṣawire lyāka ¤– /// |
| a5 | /// (sāṅ)kiś ṣalywe /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... On day twenty one... |
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| a2 | ... On day twenty three: a pint, bovine... |
| a3 | ... On day twenty five: a pint, bovine... |
| a4 | ... The Pañcwarike Mokṣawire saw it ¤ ... |
| a5 | ... Oil for the saṅgha... |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2854; TITUS: THT 2854
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2854; Ching 2010: 255
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
