AS125/KH0140 - Catalog Information

Section Information
Statistics:
Original Name:   AS125,UR247
Original Author:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42610
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   16
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.8542
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   AS125/KH0140
DataFile:
AS125

Notes:
Ascher Databook Notes:
  1. This is one of several khipus acquired by the Museum in 1907 with provenance Pachacamac. For a list of them, see UR1097.
  2. All the pendants have 4-digit values. In 2 cases, adjacent values have common divisors:

    P13 = 9(699) and P14 = 5(699); P42 = 119(28) and P43 = 79(28).


This khipu was also later recorded as UR247. The duplicate khipu UR247 and the original AS125 / KH0140 have been reconciled by Karen Thompson.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for AS125/KH0140:

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. 680; 817-818
2010 Chirinos Rivera, Andrés. Quipus del Tahuantinsuyo: Curacas, Incas y su saber matemático en el siglo XVI. Editorial Commentarios, Lima. 237; 244-246; 340
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. 14
2014 Urton, Gary. Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. 43
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 123; 261