THT 485
| Known as: | THT 485; B 485; Bleistiftnummer 2562 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 485". 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-tht485 (accessed 07 Sep. 2024). |
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 | – ·ks· /// |
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| a2 | wa s̝s̝aṃ tāṃ plā¯ ¯ś• ·[lā] [ṣu] – /// |
| a3 | re me su jā te si mā – /// |
Transcription
| a1 | – ·ks· /// |
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| a2 | waṣṣäṃ tāṃ plāś (k)lāṣu(ki)n1 /// |
| a3 | reme sujāte simā – /// |
Translation
| a2 | ... the reply... the conveyor... |
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| a3 | ... the witness Sujāte, the adjutant...n2 |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| This document actually seems to be not an account, but a document that has something to do with a legal procedure (cf. reme 'witness'). | |
| n1 | Restored according to Ching 2010: 303. |
| n2 | simā = 司马. cf. Ching 2010: 142-143 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 302; Ching 2010: 303
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.
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.
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