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THT 555

Known as:THT 555; B 555; Bleistiftnummer 2508
Cite this page as:"THT 555". 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-tht555 (accessed 06 Dec. 2023).

Provenience

Main find spot:Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Expedition code:T III MQ 46, T III MQ 73.7
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Praise of the Law, reflection on mortality
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse
Meter:M17

Object

Manuscript:THT 552-557
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

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Transliteration

b1/// saṃ pe lai ykne tse ṣa rmtsa kwri ksa ma
b2/// [mc]· ktu po staṃ ceṃ sru ka lyñe ka ska nme :
b3/// l[ai] kne sa kṣṭra se śau¯ ¯lpa mu ske ta¯ ¯r :
b4/// ·[t]· rye ṣe me ske pi ya lya pro skai tsa
b5/// l[o] [p]e [waṃ¯] [¯t] ya mo¯ ¯r kra ta tñe su
b6/// [śa] mna po pa stä ri na s̝a lyi pe

Transcription

Xx säṃ pelaiyknetse ṣarmtsa kwri ksa ma b2/// mc·k tu postäṃ ceṃ srukalyñe käskanme :
Xx b3/// laikne sakṣṭrä se ; śaul ṣpä musketär :
b4 /// (y) t(ā)rye ṣemeskepi yalya proskaitsa
b5 /// lope waṃt yamor krätatñe su
b6 /// śamna po pästä rinaṣälyi pe

Other

b2 Certainly death will disperse them after that. (Peyrot 2013c: 306)
b3 ... das Gesetz bleibt, dies Leben aber schwindet. (Schmidt 1974: 111, 138)

Commentary

Remarks

In one frame with THT 553; Tocharian recto layer not preserved.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008b A2
Tamai 2011a A3
Tamai 2011a C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 555; TITUS: THT 555

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 349-350

Translations

Hackstein 1995: b2 (200), b3 (190); Peyrot 2013c: b2 (306); Schmidt 1974: b3 (111, 138); Thomas 1952: b4 (18), b6 (17); Thomas 1997: b6 (116)

Bibliography

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Peyrot 2008b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Peyrot 2013c

Peyrot, Michaël. 2013c. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Göttingen.

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.

Tamai 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

Thomas 1952

Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Thomas 1997

Thomas, Werner. 1997. Interpretationsprobleme im Tocharischen. Unflektiertes A puk, B po “ganz, all, jeder”. Vol. 3. SbWGF. Stuttgart: Steiner.

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.”