THT 441
| Known as: | THT 441; B 441; Bleistiftnummer 2580 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 441". 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-tht441 (accessed 19 Jun. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
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 |
Images
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 | /// [tro] ko¯ ¯l wi to¯ ¯m• «†[a]» «†[śa]» «†[ri]» «†[ke]» «†[tse]» «†[yi]» «†[kṣye]» |
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| a2 | /// [¤] sa ṅka ste re ā rya wa rme śa rsa ¤ |
| a3 | /// [ma] sa ta rya to¯ ¯m• tro ko¯ ¯l wi to¯ ¯m• pi ṣa ṅkaṃ |
| b1 | [¤] |
Transcription
| a1 | /// trokol wi tom n1n2 |
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| a2 | /// ¤saṅkästere āryawarme śarsa ¤ |
| a3 | /// masa tarya tom trokol wi tom pi{ś}n3 ṣaṅkäṃ |
| b1 | ¤ |
Translation
| a1 | ... provisions: two pecks. |
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| a2 | ... ¤. The Saṅkastere Āryawarme knew about it ¤. |
| a3 | ... was spent: three pecks. Provisions: two pecks, five pints. |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | aśari ketse yikṣye has been crossed out. (Or maybe we should segment aśariketse?) |
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| n2 | The crossed out ke tse yi has been read as [ka - ·i] in Sieg and Siegling 1953. |
| n3 | 'pi' is a correction of 'wi'. The scribe forgot to write the '¯Ś' of piś (Ching 2010: 278). |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 292; Ching 2010: 277-278
Bibliography
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
“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.
