MEMOIRS CARNEGIE MUSEUM, VOL. IV PLATE XXIX. 
Meaning ic| Seal : 
and Modern 5 Form, Older Forms. J robable Remarks. 
Sound Form. a ND. Original. 
: ; 4 ~—s«100. 
390 ae: —_— | | = — y \ | = x | One line, or one weapon. 
891 ees ae pet H \ | =e =) lI Two lines, or two weapons. 
39g Three, rola = H/ ANN III I! Three lines. 
ZY] D FEV HOA = AM | Ill | vests 
cares | Five lines, variously indi- 
K|AXXXABZ Ii [Mh zpo 
gP A) US »~ SME: ce 4y Probably six lines united. 
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lI 
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394 Five, 
I 
895 Six, Po 
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Probably seven lines 
united. 
397 “Hight, 
Eight lines united. 
pa. 
MIC >< ITS 
HDA 5 Hy By [SA] rnrnieson i 
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tit 
Tit et 
9/5 OU FB 
Il 
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398 Nine, 
kin, 
ae 
WR 
ae 
a 
=f 
+ 
En 
a] 
+ 
409 Twenty, 
nien, Two tens. 
401 Thirty, 
shih, so. Three tens. 
; Hundred, 
02 many, 
pet. 
Resembles signs for 
“head’’ and ‘nose.’ Sig- 
nificance disputed. 
+o) G |S) = 
f Thous- 
iii 403 aan 2 Possibly ‘‘hundred-tens ”” 
H chiien, ( 3) (origin obscure). 
CuinesE IpEOGRAPHS. 
he respective signs Lit + belong to a distinct system of numerals still used for commercial purposes, which combines figures above 
1 ‘ =; ) 
: The vertica 
The regular 
five. ata 
il line is a contraction of X ‘‘five’’ to which ‘“one,” “two” and “three”? are added to indicate ‘‘six,’’ ‘ 
system combines after ‘‘ten.’” 
seven’? and ‘‘eight.”’ 
TThis sign is undoubtedly two fives contracted. Originally x orsome like form, as in the Roman numeral X which is a duplicated \/. 
