THT 555
| Known as: | THT 555; B 555; Bleistiftnummer 2508 |
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| 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 03 Dec. 2024). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Expedition code: | T III MQ 46, T III MQ 73.7 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
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: | 665 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 552-557 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
Transliteration
| b1 | /// saṃ pe lai ykne tse ṣa rmtsa kwri ksa ma |
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| b2 | /// [mc]· ktu po staṃ ceṃ sru ka lyñe ka ska nme : |
| b3 | /// l[ai] kne sa kṣṭra se śau¯ ¯l s̝pa 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 : |
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| Xx | b3/// laikne sakṣṭrä se ; śaul ṣpä musketär : |
| b4 | /// (y) t(ā)rye ṣemeskepi yalya proskaitsa |
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| b5 | /// lope waṃt yamor krätatñe su |
| b6 | /// śamna po pästä rinaṣälyi pe |
Other
| b2 | Certainly death will disperse them after that. (Peyrot 2013b: 306) |
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| 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 2008 | A2 |
| Tamai 2011 | A3 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 349-350
Translations
Hackstein 1995: b2 (200), b3 (190); Peyrot 2013b: b2 (306); Schmidt 1974: b3 (111, 138); Thomas 1952: b4 (18), b6 (17); Thomas 1997: b6 (116)
Bibliography
Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. 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, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.
Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Thomas, Werner. 1997. Interpretationsprobleme im Tocharischen. Unflektiertes A puk, B po “ganz, all, jeder”. Vol. 3. SbWGF, XXXV. Stuttgart: Steiner.
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.
