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U 5208

Known as:U 5208
Cite this page as:Martin Braun. "U 5208". 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-u5208 (accessed 14 Nov. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Martin Braun

Provenience

Main find spot:Unknown
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB; Old Turkic
Linguistic stage:late
Script:cursive

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Following fragment:U 5207
Material: ink on paper
Form:Scroll
Size (h × w):19.4 × 13.4 cm

Transliteration

(continues on U 5207)

Transcription

a1lalopo saukanausuwināsisaköẓönčlük {।} ·i(−)¬
a2¬śkepankıyapādapiršosılalyesaünmištäkiesteye : ka¬
a3¬tıgkärccitakiḅösäñäkkiyäsipṣāṃñetavıšġannıŋ
a4kkar stamoyeligin sunsartomaṣṣetuprak yä(r) ///
a5°ktiśkečočokkıya {।} kidi luwokoŋuzsarkoytartsarbh· tr· ///
a6šassıdayamutsentsetotinıŋlestaiṣ {।} uyasıŋasanai(b)i(r) ///
a7pippaltsapidpidi üẓähanumehanume ḅečentaktsāntsau(vda)¬
a8¬čıśrikrädviṣpaiypeoḍon ellegmokoulugnāte s{t}ar-{n}e
a9¬šläšmäkiŋä {।} lyokkolkep wiya takıṣetkasta
a10¬rtdıŋyāyāṅko {।} s(a)vılmıštruontatäŋtäkṣyäteṃ
a11oypsa-(ñ)t(a)yar mäniŋyuktikörkḍäšinwiyatär-{n}e : ö¬
a12¬gsiräyür anıŋpaitārttsanaḅuẓagulugkre ramuẓlug ka¬
a13¬lnaśurt(i)gi čogıetswentsa {†ke}katırlarka{ke}karśuwayüḍürmi(š)
a14mokaṣṣ{a}-meäymäntürdi olarnıwaṣākanekorkınčın äy(män)¬
a15¬čintopi tessaüküp urtıśaiṣṣe āppamātčakikāā-

(continues on U 5207)

Commentary

Remarks

*Verso in Chinese and two lines in Uyghur script.

References

Edition

Maue 2015a: 499-507; Peyrot et al. 2019

Bibliography

Maue 2015a

Maue, Dieter. 2015a. Alttürkische Handschriften Teil 19: Dokumente in Brāhmī und tibetischer Schrift Teil 2. Vol. 13, 27. Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. https://rep.adw-goe.de/handle/11858/00-001S-0000-0023-9AF0-7.

Peyrot et al. 2019

Peyrot, Michaël, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Jens Wilkens. 2019. “Vernaculars of the Silk Road - A Tocharian B–Old Uyghur bilingual.” Journal Asiatique 307: 65–90.