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TS 43
| Known as: | TS 43; MQ 153b; MQ 153.6 |
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| Cite this page as: | "TS 43". 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-ts43 (accessed 06 Dec. 2023). |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Qizil Miŋ-Öy |
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| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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| Linguistic stage: | late |
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| Script: | cursive |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Letter |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on wood tablet |
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| Form: | Woodslip |
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| Number of lines: | 3+ |
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Transliteration
| a1 | śa¯ ¯k śtwe rkṣu nne nnai yma ññe me ne i kaṃ trai /// |
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| a2 | se yi kṣe mā rju ni kṣu n[n]e • ṣe yeṃ yu rpā ṣkai /// |
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| a3 | ·i – – ·(·)·i – [r]·e – – – /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 |
In the year fourteen of the reign, in the month of *Naim, (on the day) twenty-three /// |
| a2 |
in the reign of the son ..., of Kṣemārjune • ... Yurpāṣka ... /// |
| a3 |
... |
Commentary
Remarks
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Belongs to the Berlin collection of Tumshuqese texts; identification: Hirotoshi Ogihara in Ching and Ogihara 2013: 106–107. |
Linguistic commentary
| n1 |
Note the depalatalized and degeminated mene for meñne. |
References
other
Ching 2010: 297-298; Ching and Ogihara 2013: 106-107
Bibliography
Ching 2010
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD thesis, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Ching and Ogihara 2013
Ching, Chao-jung, and Hirotoshi Ogihara. 2013. “A Tocharian B sale contract on a wooden tablet.” Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 5: 101–27.
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