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THT 291.b

Known as:	THT 291.b; B 291 Frgm.; Bleistiftnummer 2664
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot. "THT 291.b". 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-tht291b (accessed 03 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Michaël Peyrot
Provenience
Main find spot:	Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Specific find spot:	Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:	T III MQR 13
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Kāvya
Verse/Prose:	verse
Object
Manuscript:	THT 291
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī

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]l· – ·ts· ///
a2	/// rts[e] ta pre meṃ klo yo ma ne stā m[m]e(·) ///
a3	/// tu me[ṃ] [ksa] mā [t]ri ka tsā meṃ sū l[n]a s̝s̝a(·) ///
a4	/// kle mp[e] lye sū [w]ä rpnā tra prā – ///
b1	/// – (·)[t]ra ///
b2	/// (–) – – (– –) [¯]p e [t]te[¯] [¯]śä ·[s]· ///
b3	/// – ā sta – – ñm[e] kwā – ka s̝pa pi ///
b4	/// ·e [kus]e [a] k· ṣṣi – – ś[ai] [ṣ]ṣe ne ne ///
b5	/// [o] – (– –) – [k]· ///

Transcription

a1	/// kl· – ·ts· ///
a2	/// rtse täpremeṃ kloyomane stāmme(ṃ) ///
a3	/// tumeṃ ksa mātri katsāmeṃ sū lnaṣṣä(ṃ) ///
a4	/// (lä)kl= empelye sū wärpnāträ prā – ///
b1	/// – ·trä ///
b2	/// – – – – – p etteś ·s· ///
b3	/// – āsta – – ñ mekwā – kä ṣpä pi ///
b4	/// ·e kuse ak·ṣṣi – – śaiṣṣene ne ///
b5	/// o – – – – k· ///

Commentary

Remarks

	The whole fragment, but especially the verso, is badly abraded (Sieg and Siegling 1953: 182 edited only the recto).

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008b	A2
Tamai 2011a	C1
Tamai 2011a	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 291b; TITUS: THT 291

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 182

Bibliography

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Peyrot 2008b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Tamai 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

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.”