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1 . 
lupu 
avils 
macks 
zathrums 
2. 
avils 
macks 
sempkalclils 
lupu 
3. 
avils 
macks 
mealcklsc 
4. 
avils 
huths 
muvalckls 
lupu 
5. 
avils 
hutks 
lupu 
6. 
avils 
huths 
celckls 
7. 
avils 
cealckls 
lupu 
8. 
avils 
cis 
cealckls 
9. 
avils 
cis 
muvalckls 
10. 
avils 
tkunesi 
muvalchls 
lupu 
11. 
lupu 
avils 
esals 
cezpcdchals 
12. 
avils 
sas 
13. 
avils 
tivrs sas 
14. 
avils 
sespks 
lupuce 
Id. 
avils 
ciemzathrms 
lupu 
16. 
avils 
cis 
zathrmsc 
There can be no reasonable doubt that the words in italics 
which exactly take the place of the usual figures in the three 
formulae for denoting age. must be Etruscan numerals. 
In all known languages, numbers between twenty and one 
hundred are constructed on the same model. Let us take for 
instance, the English numbers — 
Twenty four. 
Thirty two, 
Forty three. 
We see that in every case there is a short word, called the digit 
and a longer word called the decade. The digits, two, three, and four’ 
are dissimilar in form. The decades, twenty, thirty, and forty’ 
have a common suffix -tij, which means “ ten/’ The first syllables 
of the decades are digits which have undergone slight phonetic 
modifications. If we now examine our Etruscan numerals, it is 
easy to pick out the decades and the digits. The words mealciilsc, 
MUVALCIILS, CEALCHLS, CELCIILS, SEMPHALCHLS, CEZPALOI1ALS, ZA- 
thrums, and ciemzathrms can only be decades ; while the words 
MACHS, HUTHS, cis, thu-nesi, esals, and SAS must be digits. Here 
then, without any reference to the dice, we have got six words 
pui porting to be Etruscan digits. It is obvious that inscribed dice, 
and inscriptions on coffins recording people’s ages, can have no 
uords in common except digits. If there is an agreement of a fair 
proportion, say four or five, of the two sets of words which purport 
to be digits, the proof is overwhelming that both the words on the 
dice and the words in the epitaphs are reallv numerals, and 
nothing else. 
The correspondences are these — 
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