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A Tambo (Quechua: ''tampu'', "inn") was an Incan structure built for administrative and military purposes. Found along Incan roads, tambos typically contained supplies, served as lodging for itinerant state personnel,〔Provincial Power in the Inka Empire. by Terence N. D'Altroy. 1992. Smithsonian Institution. page 101 ISBN 1-56098-115-6〕 and were depositories of quipu-based accounting records. == Characteristics and Functions == At a minimum, tambos would contain housing, cooking facilities, and storage facilities.〔Suarez and George. (2011) Pg. 40〕 Beyond this, a considerable amount of variation between different tambos exist. Some tambos were little more than simple inns, while others were essentially cities that provided temporary housing for travelers.〔 Architecture and documentary evidence suggest that the functional sizes of the settlements probably corresponded to their capacity to house a population.〔Provincial Power in the Inka Empire. by Terence N. D'Altroy. 1992. Smithsonian Institution. page 98. ISBN 1-56098-115-6〕 The functions of the tambos were dependent on their size as well as the facilities they contained. Every tambo had the capacity to house various state officials.〔 For example, the smallest tambos served as relay stations for the chasquis, who were state messengers who ran along state roads.〔 Larger tambos could provide other functions as well. For example, larger tambos would have larger storehouses that could provide supplies and some lodging for armies on the move.〔Hyslop, John. The Inka Road System. Academic Press, 1984. Pg. 279.〕 This function should not be allowed to cause confusion between tambos and qullqa, which were only storehouses that armies would resupply from as they passed by.〔Suarez, Ananda Cohen, and Jeremy James George. Handbook to Life in the Inca World. Facts On File, 2011. Pg. 110〕 The largest and most luxurious tambos were generally used to lodge the traveling Inca and his entourage (typically wives and state officials).〔〔 Beyond taking care of various kinds of travelers, larger tambos would also contain facilities where various specialists, such as potters and weavers, would produce their goods.〔 They could also served as administrative centers from which local lords would oversee the region.〔 Furthermore, larger tambos would contain ceremonial spaces which would serve as places for religious practices.〔 Pedro Cieza de León made numerous references to the tambos in his ''Crónicas de Peru''; in the following passage, Cieza de León described the general uses for the tambos that he learned from native peoples: "And so there would be adequate supplies for their men, every four leagues there were lodgings and storehouses, and the representatives or stewards who lived in the capital of the provinces took great care to see that the natives kept these inns or lodgings (tambos) well supplied. And so certain of them would not give more than others, and all should make their contribution, they kept the accounts by a method of knots, which they call ''quipus'', and in this way, after the troops had passed by, they could check and see that there had been no fraud."〔Cieza de León, Pedro de, ''The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de León, translated by Harriet de Onis.'' Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959, p. 105 (Chapter LXXXII).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tambo (Incan structure)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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