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THT 420

Known as:THT 420; B 420; Bleistiftnummer 2445
Cite this page as:"THT 420". 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-tht420 (accessed 05 May 2024).

Provenience

Main find spot:Murtuk
Expedition code:T III M 175.5
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:late
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:History of Kuchean kings
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:History
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 415-421
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

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Transliteration

a1///
a2/// sp· rtha nma yā mṣ·a ///
a3/// [t]p· lai k[n]e • ke kmo ṣ ///
a4/// m· e ṅwe klyī ye ko¯ ¯s twe ///
a5/// lñe sa wä rñai ·o ///
b1/// rtsyai wlo • 3 [k]us· ///
b2/// ṅkau u tpa tti tu ra śā rsa ///
b3/// [p]· de śṣ· ya kne sa • [t]· ///
b4/// r· pha le wa lo ///
b5/// – ///

Transcription

a1 ///
a2 /// sp· rthanma yāmṣ·a ///
a3 /// t p(e)laikne • kekmoṣ ///
a4 n1 /// m· eṅwe klyīye kos tw e ///
a5 /// lñesa wärñai ·o ///
b1 /// rtsyai wlo • 3 kus(e) ///
b2 /// ṅkau utpatti tu ra śārsa ///
b3 /// p·deśṣ· yaknesa • t· ///
b4 /// r(ṇa)phale walo ///
b5 /// – ///

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

n1 eṅwe for eṅkwe.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008 L
Tamai 2011 C1
Tamai 2011 C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 420; TITUS: THT 420

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 280

Bibliography

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. 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 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. 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.”