Catalog: KH0140 (AS125, UR247)

Section Information
Statistics:
Aliases:   AS125, UR247
Contributors:  Marcia & Robert Ascher
Museum:  Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, Germany
Museum Number:  VA42610
Provenance:  Pachacamac
Region:  Unknown
# of Groups & Cords:   5 Groups, 16 Cords - 16p
# of Unique Cord Colors:  2
Benford Match:  0.8542
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  0 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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   KH0140 (AS125, UR247)
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KH0140

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 KH0110.
  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 KH0483. The duplicate khipu KH0483 and the original KH0140 / KH0140 have been reconciled by Karen Thompson.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for KH0140 (AS125, UR247):

Year Author Title Pages
1978 Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu: Databook. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Text: 680; 817-818
2010 Chirinos Rivera, Andrés. Quipus del Tahuantinsuyo: Curacas, Incas y su saber matemático en el siglo XVI. Editorial Commentarios, Lima. Text: 237; 244-246; 340; Figures: 245
2006 Pereyra Sánchez, Hugo. Descripción de los quipus del Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica, Lima. Text: 14
2014 Urton, Gary. Quipus de Pachamac. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima. Text: 43; 47
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. Text: 123; 124; 261
2007 Witkowski, Olaf. Essai de décryptage des cordelettes quipus utilisées par les Incas comme moyen de communication: Un exemple d’ethno-cryptographie (Doctoral dissertation, Master’s thesis, Université Catholique de Louvain). Text: 97