Editing Etruscan numerals (section)

==== Tally marks ====
Another hypothesis, which seems to be more accepted today{{According to whom|date=April 2022}}, is that the Etrusco-Roman numerals actually derive from notches on [[tally stick]]s, which continued to be used by Italian and [[Dalmatia]]n shepherds into the 19th century.<ref name="Ifrah2000">{{
cite book
| first1 = Georges
| last1 = Ifrah
| title = The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
| others = Translated by David Bellos, E. F. Harding, Sophie Wood, Ian Monk
| publisher = John Wiley & Sons
| year = 2000
}}</ref><ref name=heem2009/> Unfortunately, being made of perishable wood, no tally sticks would have survived from that period.<ref name=heem2009/>

In that system, each unit counted would be recorded as a notch cut across the stick. Every fifth notch was double cut, i.e. "𐌡"  and every tenth was cross cut, "𐌢"; much like European [[tally marks]] today. For example, a count of '28' would then look like 
:𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌡𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌢𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌡𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌢𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌡𐌠𐌠𐌠

When transposing the final count to writing (or to another stick), it would have been unnecessary to copy each "𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠Λ𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠" before a "𐌢", or each "𐌠𐌠𐌠𐌠" before a Λ. So the count of '28' would be written down as simply  "𐌢𐌢𐌡𐌠𐌠𐌠".