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THT 421.2

Known as:THT 421.2; B 421 fragment 2; THT 421.b; THT 1352.a; pencil no. 2412; prelim. no Toch. 187
Cite this page as:"THT 421.2". 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-tht4212 (accessed 09 Dec. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Murtuk
Expedition code:T III M 175
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB

Text contents

Title of the work:History of Kuchean kings
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:History

Object

Manuscript:THT 415-421
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:2=5

Images

Transliteration

a1/// na yā mo rnta su e ·eṃ ///
a2/// ·ä (– –) – ///
b1/// – ·t· – ///
b2/// ko¯ ¯s twe pi ṅkte ka [t]·· ///

Transcription

a1/// na yāmornta su e ·eṃ ///
a2/// ·ä – – – ///
b1/// – ·t· – ///
b2/// kos tw epiṅkte kät·· ///

Commentary

Remarks

*This fragment has been partly edited apud no. 421 fragment 2 in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 280 and has now the pressmark THT 1352.a.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008L
Tamai 2011C1
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 421b, THT 1352a; TITUS: THT 421, THT 1352

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 280; Tamai 2007a: №1352

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 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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.

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