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TS 43

Known as:	TS 43; MQ 153b; MQ 153.6
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 27 Jul. 2024).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil Ming-öy
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	late
Script:	cursive
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Letter
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on wood tablet
Form:	Woodslip
Number of lines:	3+

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Transliteration

a1	śa¯ ¯k śtwe rkṣu nne nnai yma ññe me ne i kaṃ trai ///
a2	se yi kṣe mā rju ni kṣu n[n]e • ṣe yeṃ yu rpā ṣkai ///
a3	·i – – ·(·)·i – [r]·e – – – ///

Transcription

a1	n1 śak śtwer kṣunne nnaiymaññe mene ikäṃ trai(ne) ///
a2	seyi kṣemārjuni kṣunne • ṣeyeṃ yurpāṣkai ///
a3	·i – – ·(ā) ·i – r·e – – – ///

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

	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, 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.