THT 471
| Known as: | THT 471; B 471; Bleistiftnummer 2624 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 471". 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-tht471 (accessed 14 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 | |
| Preceding fragment: | THT 469 |
| 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
(continues from THT 469)
| a1 | /// – – – [k]· – /// |
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| a2 | /// w· ltsa cā•¯ ¯k cai yti śka ntse ka pci |
| a3 | /// [¯p][•] [w]ā ltsa ta rya tau¯ ¯m cai yti śka ntse ka pci |
Transcription
(continues from THT 469)
| a1 | /// – – – k(apci) /// |
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| a2 | /// w(ā)ltsa cākn1 caiytiśkantse kapci |
| a3 | /// (ya)p wāltsa tarya taum caiytiśkantse kapci |
Translation
(continues from THT 469)
| a1 | ... finger-measure... |
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| a2 | ... he ground: a picul. Caiytiśka's finger-measure. |
| a3 | ... he ground barley: three pecks. Caiytiśka's finger-measure. |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | The virāma-dot is on 'cā' instead of 'KA'. |
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References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 299; Ching 2010: 292; Thomas 1957: 141
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.
Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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.
