. Chess and playing cards. Etruscan A peculiar importance ^ is attached to the latter, from the fact that s it is believed by Etruscologists that the first six numerals of the Etruscan language have rig. 152. been recovered from a pair of dice exhumed korean die. in 1848 near These dice, now in cat. no 17606, Museum of Arc^oiogy, tlie Cabinet of Medals and Antiques in the University of Pennsylvania. ?«? National Library, Paris, bear, instead of theusual pips or dots, the following words in Etruscan letters: Mach,Thu, Iluth, Ki, Zal5 Sa. These words have been variously inter
. Chess and playing cards. Etruscan A peculiar importance ^ is attached to the latter, from the fact that s it is believed by Etruscologists that the first six numerals of the Etruscan language have rig. 152. been recovered from a pair of dice exhumed korean die. in 1848 near These dice, now in cat. no 17606, Museum of Arc^oiogy, tlie Cabinet of Medals and Antiques in the University of Pennsylvania. ?«? National Library, Paris, bear, instead of theusual pips or dots, the following words in Etruscan letters: Mach,Thu, Iluth, Ki, Zal5 Sa. These words have been variously interpretedby scholars upon the assumption that they are numerals, and also thatthe pips which they are supposed to replace were uniformly arranged1 + 3, 2 + 4, 5 + 6 (Oampanaris law). Comparison of the Etruscandice words with the numerals used in the Korean game of Nyout, acomparison suggested by the fact of the agreement of the Korean andEtruscan dice in their dissimilarity from other dice, shows a Korean stave-game numerals: Etruscan dice names: 1. To or ta. •Thu. 2. Kai or Kd. Ki. 3. Eel or Kol. Zal. 4. Nyout or ute. Ruth. 5. Mo. Mach. 6. Sa. 1 Chinese Games with Dice and Dominoes, Eeport U. S. Nat. Mas., 1893, p. 494. Ajnong i lie dice in the British Museum regarded as Etruscan, which vary in theirpips from the regular arrangement (that is, 1 + 6, 2 + 5, 3 + 4), three have 1+2,3 + 4, 5 + 6, and three 1 + 3, 2 + 4, 5 + 6. What appears to he a set of three dice,made of amber, have one marked 1 + 2, 3 + 4, 5 + 6; one 1 + 3, 2 + 4, 5 + 6, andone regular, 1 + 6, 2 + 5, 3 + 4. Two iron dice (Cat. No. 15786) in the UniversityMuseum, purishafted at Perugia, have their dots arranged 1 + 3, 2 + 4, 5-J-6. Daniel G. Brinton, The Ethnologic Affinities of the Ancient Etruscans, Philos. Soc, Philadelphia, XXVI, 1887, p. 522. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 835 From the fact of the nyout numerals being in all probability derivedfrom an Ural-Altaic stock, their cor
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