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THT 499

Known as:	THT 499; B 499
Cite this page as:	"THT 499". 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-tht499 (accessed 16 Dec. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:	T III MQR 21
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Medicine/Magic
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	5

Transliteration

a1	/// sa kl[au] tko tra || ku mu –
a2	/// ·o ka le • yva [rca] trau 1 ||
a3	/// [e] ma lye va rsa yo ka
a4	– – || su kṣm[e] la • ka ṣu • pi [ṣ]·[ā] e ma
a5	[ly]· va rsa yo ka le 3 || ṛ ṣa [p]a – –
b1	[le] ne pa kṣa le 4 || ka ṣu e ma [ly]· [va]
b2	– – – le 5 || au śi ye ca si • śa [mtr]e m·
b3	/// ·e ·ä kuwa le se kre tke 6
b4	/// tse ta no • pa lte • ś[ai] [le]
b5	/// || ṣa lype si nta pa tse

Transcription

a1	/// °sa klautkoträ ॥ kumu –
a2	/// (y)okale • yvarca trau 1 ॥
a3	/// emalye varsa yoka¬
a4	¬(lle) (2) ॥ sukṣmel{†ä} • kaṣu • pi{ṣ→p}(p)ā{l} ema¬
a5	¬ly(e) varsa yokale 3 ॥ ṛṣapa – –
b1	lene päkṣale 4 ॥ kaṣu emaly(e) va¬
b2	¬(rsa) (yoka)le 5 ॥ auśiye casi • śamtrem·
b3	/// ·e ·äkuwale sekretke 6
b4	/// tse tano • palte • śaile
b5	/// ॥ ṣalype sintapätse

Commentary

Remarks

*	The original manuscript is missing.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 499; TITUS: THT 499

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 310

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.

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.