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THT 297.c

Known as:THT 297.c; B 297; B 297 Frgm. 2
Cite this page as:"THT 297.c". 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-tht297c (accessed 09 Dec. 2023).

Provenience

Main find spot:Toyuq
Expedition code:T II T 2
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:late
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Kāvya
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 297
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

a1tre nau ṣwe cce śtwā rā ka nte ña ṅka ṣk· ///
a2¯ts wi n[ā] sko || ta tha ka rā ///
a3///
b1[r]· – – || m· tr· ñ· mtsa k· ///
b2ke ke nu ma ñu pa rma ṅ[k]i [p]i [ś]m· ///
b3ci wi nā sko tu ṣi¯ ¯t ñi kcye śai ///

Transcription

a1 tre nauṣw ecce śtwārā känte ñaṅka ṣk· ///
a2 ts wināsko ॥ tatha karā ///
a3 ///
b1 r· – – ॥ m(i)tr(e) ñ(e)mtsa k· ///
b2 kekenu mañu parmaṅki piśm· ///
b3 ci wināsko tuṣit ñikcye śai ///

Commentary

Remarks

In one frame with THT 297.a and THT 297.b. The leaf is in portrait, not landscape format. However, just as with a poṭhī leaf, it is to be flipped horizontally, not vertically as with Old Uyghur or European style books. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

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

References

other

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 189

Online access

IDP: THT 297c; TITUS: THT 297

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.”