CEToM | THT 440

THT 440

Known as:	THT 440; B 440
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz. "THT 440". 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-tht440&outputformat=print (accessed 17 Jan. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Adrian Musitz
Provenience
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	late
Script:	cursive
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Account
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Scroll

Known as:

THT 440; B 440

Cite this page as:

Adrian Musitz. "THT 440". 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-tht440&outputformat=print (accessed 17 Jan. 2026).

Edition

Editor:

Adrian Musitz

Provenience

Language and Script

Language:

Linguistic stage:

late

Script:

cursive

Text contents

Text genre:

Non-literary

Text subgenre:

Account

Verse/Prose:

prose

Object

Material:

ink on paper

Form:

Scroll

Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1	– ka py· r·¯ ¯s ÷ kl· s· m[a] sa ta [r]y[a] t·¯ ¯m
a2	[pa] ñcwa ri ke dha rma ra kṣi te lyā ka 金 sa ṅka ste re ā ///
a3	[śa] ṣka sne – te ka pyā re¯ ¯s kle se ta rya to¯ ¯m se [n]e mi tre
a4	kce¯ ¯s yi kṣye tau

– ka py· r·¯ ¯s ÷ kl· s· m[a] sa ta [r]y[a] t·¯ ¯m

[pa] ñcwa ri ke dha rma ra kṣi te lyā ka 金 sa ṅka ste re ā ///

[śa] ṣka sne – te ka pyā re¯ ¯s kle se ta rya to¯ ¯m se [n]e mi tre

kce¯ ¯s yi kṣye tau

Transcription

a1	/// – kapy(ā)r(e)s ÷ kl(e)s(e) masa tarya t(o)m ///
a2	pañcwarike dharmarakṣite lyāka 金saṅkästere ā° ///
a3	śaṣkäsne te kapyāres klese tarya tom senemitre n1 ///
a4	/// (amo)kces yikṣye tau

/// – kapy(ā)r(e)s ÷ kl(e)s(e) masa tarya t(o)m ///

pañcwarike dharmarakṣite lyāka 金saṅkästere ā° ///

śaṣkäsne te kapyāres klese tarya tom senemitre n1 ///

/// (amo)kces yikṣye tau

Translation

a1	... for the kapyāri: klese was spent: three pecks...
a2	The Pañcwarike Dharmarakṣite saw it 金. The Saṅkastere...
a3	On day sixteen, this (is) the klese for the kapyāri: three pecks. Senemitre...
a4	... flour for the artisans: a peck.

... for the kapyāri: klese was spent: three pecks...

The Pañcwarike Dharmarakṣite saw it 金. The Saṅkastere...

On day sixteen, this (is) the klese for the kapyāri: three pecks. Senemitre...

... flour for the artisans: a peck.

Commentary

Philological commentary

References

Online access

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Bibliography

n1	The 'n' here looks very strange. The name is also unexpectedly senemitre instead of *senamitre.

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

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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.

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