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THT 358.b

Known as:	THT 358.b; Pencil no. 2388
Cite this page as:	Melanie Malzahn. "THT 358.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-tht358b (accessed 17 Nov. 2025).
Edition
Editor:	Melanie Malzahn
Date of online publication:	2014-08-01
Provenience
Main find spot:	Murtuk
Expedition code:	T III M 175
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Manuscript:	THT 357-358
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

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Transliteration

a1	/// – po – ·e (·)[l](·) ///
a2	/// [lya] kā tai cau n(·) ///
a3	/// ·e ·ī ///
b1	/// mā ka llaṃ i – ///
b2	/// ·o [ñ](·)ä ///

Transcription

a1	/// – po – ·e ·l· ///
a2	/// lyakātai cau n· ///
a3	/// ·e·ī ///
b1	/// mā kallaṃ i – ///
b2	/// ·oñ(c){†ä} ///

Translation

a2	... you saw ...
b1	... (s)he will not obtain ...

Commentary

Remarks

*	THT 358.b-f are five very small fragments from the same manuscript as THT 357 and THT 358.a; Sieg and Siegling 1953: 235 mentioned the form [lya]kātai from frg. b a2 sub no. 358.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011	C3
Tamai 2011	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 358b

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 235

Bibliography

IDP

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

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 2011

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