THT 455
| Known as: | THT 455; B 455; Bleistiftnummer 2593 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 455". 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-tht455 (accessed 17 Jan. 2026). |
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 | tau pi śṣa ṅkaṃ pa ñcwa ri ke jñā /// |
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| a2 | śa kṣu kne ka pyā re¯ ¯s /// |
Transcription
| a1 | tau piś ṣaṅkäṃ pañcwarike jñān1n2 /// |
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| a2 | śak ṣukne kapyāres /// |
Translation
| a1 | a peck, five pints. The Pañcwarike Jñā-?... |
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| a2 | On day seventeen, ... for the kapyāri... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Sieg and Siegling have 'ndre' instead of 'jñā'. This is understandable because 'jñā' and 'ndre' look very similar and are even confounded by the scribes themselves. |
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| n2 | We know of a Jñānasome and a Jñānaca(ṃ)dre who were Pañcwarike. |
References
Online access
Edition
Bibliography
“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.
