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THT 593

Known as:THT 593; B 593; Prelim. No. 284; THT 1428
Cite this page as:"THT 593". 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-tht593 (accessed 03 Dec. 2023).

Provenience

Main find spot:Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Expedition code:T III MQ 17.28
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:archaic

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):8 × 7 cm
Number of lines:6

Images

Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1/// ññe [tpe] [ṣ]e śa [y]· mā ///
a2/// p[c]· yyā woṃ 10 2 w[ā] mā s· ///
a3/// syā la ṅkā rne [tū] pa d[dh]a ṣṭa nta 10 [9] ///
a4/// ṣṣe ka ryo rttau ksa lya kā [n]e ///
a5/// [n]m[aṃ] tsśu ke śa s[e] ka ryo rttau kra ṣi ///
a6/// [s]· ś[r]· tsa nmā ne po – – y·[ä] ///
b1/// [k]· nw·¯ ¯t e ñcwa ññ[e] ra – – ///
b2/// ly[e] ttā pra kre na kte sñä t[p]e ta¯ ¯ñ ///
b3/// – s̝s̝a lye [p]te – – [na] ·s· yā ///
b4/// [n]e – ts[ts]a [t]ya [rk](·) ne [pa] ri ///
b5/// ·ä tka [we] tk[ā]¯ ¯s̝ ·[śc]· ke ne ///
b6/// t[sa] stra krui a sta ///

Transcription

12d a1/// ññetpeṣe śay· mā /// a2/// pc· yyāwoṃ 10-2
19d wāmās· /// a3/// syālaṅkārne tūpaddhaṣṭantä 10-9
///
a4 /// ṣṣe käryorttau ksa lyakā-ne ///
a5 /// nmaṃts śukeśä se käryorttau kraṣi ///
a6 /// s· śr· tsänmāne po – – y·ä ///
b1 /// k·n w·t eñcwaññe ra – – ///
b2 /// lyettā prakre näkte sñätpe täñ ///
b3 /// – ṣṣälye pte – – na ·s· yā ///
b4 /// ne – tstsat yark(e)ne päri ///
b5 /// ·ätkawetkāṣ ·śc· kene ///
b6 /// tsästrä krui asta ///

Commentary

Remarks

This manuscript is not lost as previously thought, but has been classified under THT 1428. On the script type, see Malzahn 2007e: 266.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008b A2
Malzahn 2007e A2
Tamai 2011a C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 593, THT 1428; TITUS: THT 593, THT 1428

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 378; Tamai 2007a: №1428

Bibliography

IDP

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

Malzahn 2007e

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007e. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.

Peyrot 2008b

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

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 2007a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2007a. “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan collection. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.

Tamai 2011a

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

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.”