this word means “ one/' the second means “ five.” We also have 
the two elements separately. In Tungus we have muk in muk-on, 
“ one,” which is the same word as the Mordwin (Finnic) xaike, 
“one,” the letters ni and v being interchanged according to a 
common law.* In Tungus we have tun in tun-ga, “ five/’ and in 
Magyar “five ” is ot. 
It may be said that the Etruscan word thu = 5 does not much 
resemble the Hungarian word ot = 5. Both, however, seem to be 
derived from a primitive word for “hand,” of which the Samoyed 
uten, “ hand,” may be taken as the primitive type. In Ostiak this 
word takes the differentiated forms uta and tui, one of which means 
“hand,” and the other “finger.” These words, uta and tui, have 
respectively undergone the same changes as the Hungarian ot and 
the Etruscan thu. 
We obtain therefore the following interpretation of the words 
on the dice : — 
MACH = 1 
cr =2 
zal = 3 
sa = 4 
THU = 5 
1LUTH = 6 
Now if we are right in our determination of these words, the 
disposition of the words on the dice ought to agree with the way 
in which the numbers were usually placed on pip-marked dice. 
According to the investigations of Signor Campanari, Etruscan 
pip-marked dice were marked according to the scheme given by 
cutting out the following diagram and folding it round a cube. 
O O o O .1 
6 
* 
Schott, Tat, Xpr., pp. 30, 31. 
