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THT 493

Known as:THT 493; B 493
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 03 Oct. 2024).

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

Transliteration

a1/// [ñ]ñiṃ ypa rwe śka lyu wā sta śa ṅki ññi tse [ttssoṃ] ///
a2/// ·e – ·e [k]o n[t]a¯ ¯p lla [ṣ]··¯ – s·· rt[t]e ña ke ///

Transcription

a1/// (śaṅki)ññiṃ yparwe śka lyuwāsta śaṅkiññitse ttssoṃn2 ///
a2/// e·e ko ntap llaṣ··s·· rtte ñake ///

Translation

a1... you first sent (Śaṅkiññi) hither... of Śaṅkiññi...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1Might śaṅkiññitse have something to do with śaṅke?
n2Maybe 'ttssoṃ' is 'ntssoṃ'. It doesn't look quite right either way.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 493; TITUS: THT 493

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 306; Thomas 1957: 148

Bibliography

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.

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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.