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THT 4022

Known as:THT 4022; Prelim. No. 371
Cite this page as:"THT 4022". 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-tht4022a (accessed 17 Nov. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 93
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:cursive

Text contents

Text genre:Non-literary
Text subgenre:Letter
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Scroll
Size (h × w):16.0 × 7.3 cm
Number of lines:5

Images

Transliteration

a1/// c[ai] tkiṃ pi sa ṅki [s](·) ///
a2/// [p]yä¯ ¯s̝ pro kṣi | (·)(·)ṃ ///
a3/// – 5 pā ra¯ ¯s | – ///
a4/// ka¯ ¯s 5 p❠¯rs | – ///
a5blank
a6/// [pa] – [ñ](·)· ñi ·[e] – ///

Transcription

a1/// caitkiṃ pisaṅkis· ///
a2/// pyäṣ prokṣi··ṃ ///
a3/// – 5 pāräs । – ///
a4/// käs 5 pārs । – ///
a5
a6/// ñ·· ñi ·e – ///

Commentary

Philological commentary

*Transliteration based on Ogihara 2014 except a6.

Remarks

*only recto

References

Online access

IDP: THT 4022; TITUS: THT 4022

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №4022; Ogihara 2014: 111-112

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2014

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2014. “Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 103–29.

Tamai 2007a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2007a. “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan collection. 2007. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.

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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.