THT 339
| Known as: | THT 339; B 339; Bleistiftnummer 249 |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 339". 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-tht339 (accessed 24 Mar. 2025). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Expedition code: | T III MQ 44.3, T III MQ 73 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
| Add. linguistic characteristics: | classical |
| Script: | archaic |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Unidentified Jātaka |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 338-344 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 7 |
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 | /// [¯u] ce¯ ¯u we ñā ñä śa¯ ¯s̝c krui /// |
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| a2 | /// [o] tno pa lskā sū ma ntpī ya· [ra] /// |
| a3 | /// ·m· cm(·) lmeṃ ne se¯ ¯u ñä śña /// |
| a4 | /// 4 cpī no trī kā su /// |
| a5 | /// [s]ū wṣe ññai rai tta te 10 5 śle /// |
| a6 | /// [ra] kwā i ke po staṃ le ki ne 10 6 /// |
| a7 | /// [lle] te meṃ tā kāṃ ṅke 10 7 mā pa l·· /// |
| b1 | /// [¯]nts r[a] ttā wa mā 10 8 lā nta[ṃ] p· [s]ta – /// |
| b2 | /// 10 9 kuse sū wä rpa mo śpā lmeṃ śai [ṣ](·)e /// |
| b3 | /// [na] ṣai ṣ[p]e tke na ṣṣe ī ke sū /// |
| b4 | /// [n]ā ta ṅwä ṣṣe sle me sā /// |
| b5 | /// 20 2 kuce ñä śyā mtsī s̝a p /// |
| b6 | /// te 20 3 ra ksā mai kuce ñä¯ ¯ś s̝a /// |
| b7 | /// ce¯ ¯u o nmiṃ ṣṣe pū wā r[sa] /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// u ceu weñāñäśäṣc krui /// |
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| a2 | /// ot no pälskā sū mänt pīya·rä /// |
| a3 | /// ·m· cm(e)lmeṃ neseu ñäś ña /// |
| a4 | /// (10-)4 cpī no trīkā su /// |
| a5 | /// sū wṣeññai raittate 10-5 śle /// |
| a6 | /// räkwā ike-postäṃ lekine 10-6 /// |
| a7 | /// lle temeṃ tākāṃ ṅke 10-7 mā päl·· /// |
| b1 | /// nts rattāwa mā 10-8 lāntäṃ p·stä – /// |
| b2 | /// 10-9 kuse sū wärpamo śpālmeṃ śaiṣ(ṣ)e /// |
| b3 | /// na ṣai ṣpet kenäṣṣe īke sū /// |
| b4 | /// nā täṅwäṣṣe slemesā /// |
| b5 | /// 20-2 kuce ñäś yāmtsī ṣäp /// |
| b6 | /// te 20-3 räksāmai kuce ñäś ṣä /// |
| b7 | /// ceu onmiṃṣṣe pūwārsa /// |
Other
| a5 | ... er bereitete für sich(?) ein Lager. (Schmidt 1974: 437) |
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Commentary
Remarks
| This mansucript is basically written in the common archaic script type, but it already shows standard-shaped signs beside the old ones (e.g., open-shaped 〈ma〉 beside closed-shaped); cf. Malzahn 2007a: 264. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Peyrot 2008 | A1 |
| Malzahn 2007a | A5 |
| Tamai 2011 | A2 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 221-2
Translations
Carling 2000: a6 (173); Hackstein 1995: a6 (118); Schmidt 1974: a2 (43 n.3), a4 (43 n.3), a5 (347), a5 (437), b2 (20 n.2); Thomas 1957: a1 (236), b6 (229)
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Malzahn, Melanie. 2007a. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.
Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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.
