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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 02 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Adrian Musitz
Provenience
Main find spot:	Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
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 ///
a2	śa kṣu kne ka pyā re¯ ¯s ///

Transcription

a1	tau piś ṣaṅkäṃ pañcwarike jñān1n2 ///
a2	śak ṣukne kapyāres ///

Translation

a1	a peck, five pints. The Pañcwarike Jñā-?...
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.
n2	We 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.”