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THT 455

Known as:THT 455; B 455; Bleistiftnummer 2593
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 13 Jan. 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

Transliteration

a1tau pi śṣa ṅkaṃ pa ñcwa ri ke jñā ///
a2śa kṣu kne ka pyā re¯ ¯s ///

Transcription

a1tau piś ṣaṅkäṃ pañcwarike jñān1n2 ///
a2śak ṣukne kapyāres ///

Translation

a1a peck, five pints. The Pañcwarike Jñā-?...
a2On day seventeen, ... for the kapyāri...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1Sieg 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.
n2We know of a Jñānasome and a Jñānaca(ṃ)dre who were Pañcwarike.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 455; TITUS: THT 455

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 294

Bibliography

IDP

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

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.

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.