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THT 464

Known as:THT 464; B 464; Bleistiftnummer 2577
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "THT 464". 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-tht464 (accessed 30 Nov. 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/// [¯p] wsā wa wi [t]o ///
a2yi rpṣu ki ci nai śe ntse ///
a3kā re ntse ya¯ ¯p wsā wa c❠¯k
a4– ·pṣu ki pu tte yā ne ntse ka p·i ///
a5su cā te lyā ka se [ka] ·i

Transcription

a1 /// (ya)p wsāwa wi to(m) ///
a2 /// yirpṣuki cinaiśentse ///
a3 /// kārentse yap wsāwa cāk
a4 /// (yir)pṣuki putteyānentse kap(c)i ///
a5 /// sucāten1n2 lyāka se ka(pc)i

Translation

a1 ... I gave barley: two pecks...
a2 ... The yirpṣuki Cinaiśe's...
a3 ... I gave barley to ?-kāre: a picul.
a4 ... The yirpṣuki Putteyāne's finger-measure...
a5 ... Sucāte saw it. This (is his) finger-measure...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1 Sieg and Siegling have [ca] ra, but compare this akṣara to the 'su' in THT 489. It is very clear that we're dealing with su here.
n2 Sieg and Siegling misread this as **caracāte. This is a ghost word.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 464; TITUS: THT 464

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 297-298; Sieg 1950; Thomas 1957: 140

Bibliography

IDP

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

Sieg 1950

Sieg, Emil. 1950. “Geschäftliche Aufzeichnungen in Tocharisch B aus der Berliner Sammlung.” Miscellanea Academica Berlinensia II, 2: 208–223 + I.

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.

Thomas 1957

Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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.”