THT 493
| Known as: | THT 493; B 493 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 493". 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-tht493 (accessed 07 Dec. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
Provenience | |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
| Text subgenre: | Letter |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Material: | on paper |
| Form: | Scroll |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// [ñ]ñiṃ ypa rwe śka lyu wā sta śa ṅki ññi tse [ttssoṃ] /// |
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| a2 | /// ·e – ·e [k]o n[t]a¯ ¯p lla [ṣ]··¯ – s·· rt[t]e ña ke /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (śaṅki)ññiṃ yparwe śka lyuwāsta śaṅkiññitsen1 ttssoṃn2 /// |
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| a2 | /// e – ·e ko ntap llaṣ·· – s·· rtte ñake /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... you first sent (Śaṅkiññi) hither... of Śaṅkiññi... |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Might śaṅkiññitse have something to do with śaṅke? |
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| n2 | Maybe 'ttssoṃ' is 'ntssoṃ'. It doesn't look quite right either way. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 306; Thomas 1957: 148
Bibliography
“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.
