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THT 485

Known as:	THT 485; B 485; Bleistiftnummer 2562
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 03 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	– ·ks· ///
a2	wa s̝s̝aṃ tāṃ plā¯ ¯ś• ·[lā] [ṣu] – ///
a3	re me su jā te si mā – ///

Transcription

a1	– ·ks· ///
a2	waṣṣäṃ tāṃ plāś (k)lāṣu(ki)n1 ///
a3	reme sujāte simā – ///

Translation

a2	... the reply... the conveyor...
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

IDP: THT 485; TITUS: THT 485

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 302; Ching 2010: 303

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD thesis, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

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.”