Riley S. Faelan on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 No, these are not tally marks. It's just a script, possibly ...
npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) No, these are not tally marks. It's just a script, possibly originally intended as a cipher of sorts.
The crucial idea of tally marks is, if you make scratches over a stick and then split the stick lengthwise, you'll have two copies of the tally and a high degree (for first millennium CE, anyway) of forgery resistance The middle line of a series of tally marks and the middle line of a column of Ogham's symbols serve radically different purposes.
The crucial idea of tally marks is, if you make scratches over a stick and then split the stick lengthwise, you'll have two copies of the tally and a high degree (for first millennium CE, anyway) of forgery resistance The middle line of a series of tally marks and the middle line of a column of Ogham's symbols serve radically different purposes.