THT 2855
| Known as: | THT 2855; Prelim. No. 4805 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2855". 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-tht2855 (accessed 09 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] [s]t· [r]· [ā] ·[y]· /// |
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| a2 | /// [k]·¯ ¯[ś] ṣa lyw[e] [m]· – – – ke wye i kaṃ wi ne ṣa¯ ¯ṅ· /// |
| a3 | /// – ṣa¯ ¯ṅk ke wye ÷ i ·ṃ «†pi» śwe rne ṣa¯ ¯ṅk ke wye /// |
| a4 | /// – ·e wye ÷ /// |
| a5 | /// sa ṅka ste re ā rya wi re śa r[sa] [¤] /// |
| a6 | /// – [sa] [ṣa¯] [¯]ṅ[k] ·e ·e |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (saṅ)käst(e)r(e) ā(r)y(awire) /// |
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| a2 | /// (sāṅ)k(i)ś ṣalywe m(asa) (ṣaṅk) kewye ikäṃ wine ṣaṅ(k) /// |
| a3 | /// – ṣaṅk kewye ÷ i(kä)ṃ śwerne ṣaṅk kewye /// |
| a4 | /// – (k)ewye ÷ /// |
| a5 | /// saṅkästere āryawire śarsa ¤/// |
| a6 | /// (ma)sa ṣaṅk (k)e(wy)e |
Translation
| a1 | ... The Saṅkastere Aryawire... |
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| a2 | ... Oil for the saṅgha was spint: a pint, bovine. On day twenty two: a pint... |
| a3 | ... a pint, bovine ÷ On day twenty four: a pint, bovine... |
| a4 | ... bovine ÷ ... |
| a5 | ... The Saṅkastere Aryawire knew about it ¤ ... |
| a6 | ... was spent: a pint, bovine. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2855; TITUS: THT 2855
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2855; Ching 2010: 260
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
