THT 343
| Known as: | THT 343; THT 1585.b; B 343 |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 343". 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-tht343 (accessed 27 Mar. 2025). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Expedition code: | T III MQR, T III MQ 44.7 |
| 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: | 5=7 |
Images
Transliteration
| a1 | /// k[u] ts[e] yā mi ṅke 40 2 /// |
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| a2 | /// ś[t]w· ra wä nta rwa e mpreṃ /// |
| a3 | /// śle yna mña nā ślye ṣlyä mña /// |
| a4 | /// s̝pa rka stsi 40 – /// |
| a5 | /// |
| b4 | /// ñca ra ṣā ka [ññ]· /// |
| b5 | /// [m]ta ñä śt[w]e kau tsi pa /// |
| b6 | /// – lle ā kā lta¯ ¯ñ ysa mo /// |
| b7 | /// ke rccä po au sū e [r]s· /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// kutse yāmi ṅke 40-2 /// |
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| a2 | /// śtw(ā)ra wäntärwa empreṃ /// |
| a3 | /// śle ynämñanā ślye ṣlyämña(na) /// |
| a4 | /// ṣpärkastsi 40(-4) /// |
| a5 | /// |
| b4 | /// ñca räṣākäññ(e) /// |
| b5 | /// mtä ñäś twe kautsi pä /// |
| b6 | /// – lle ākāl täñ ysamo /// |
| b7 | /// kerccäpo ausū ers(na) /// |
Commentary
Remarks
| Edited as no. 343 in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 224, the fragment now has the pressmark THT 1585.b. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed. 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 | C14 |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 343, THT 1585b; TITUS: THT 343
Edition
Translations
Thomas 1979d: a3 (158)
Bibliography
“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.
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. 1979d. “Zur Verwendung von A śla, B śale, śle im Tocharischen.” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 93: 150–73.
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.
