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7o PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

It thus appears that the Khilaani timber palaces of the Hittites with their porticoed windows and corridors were of the Gothic type, which is essentially a wooden style of architecture, especially as we shall find that the Hittite or Khatti or Guti were the primitive Goths. The Gothic style of architecture is nowadays supposed to have arisen no earlier than in the twelfth century of the Christian era ; but I long ago showed that it was used by the Indo-Scythians or Indo-Goths or Gete@ (?.c., Catti), in the second century A.D., in their sculptured representations of temples on the northwest frontier of India.t And this identity of the Hittites with the Goths now also explains the occurrence of the Gothoid arch in several ancient buildings of the Hittites in their old capital at Boghaz Koi in Cappadocia, dating back to at least about 1500 B.c.

As a clan-title, this ‘“ wooden palace ’’ builder’s title is found in Herodotus as Gelonus, the son of Hercules the Pheenician,* and Gelon, a contemporary King of Syracuse, a Phoenician settlement. It was probably used to distinguish culturally the manorial palace-dwelling Hittite overlords as “ The Hall-dwelling aristocracy " from the lowly aborigines who lived mostly in caves or underground abodes, such as “ Picts’ houses.” This wooden-palace origin for it appears probable also from the tribal title of ‘‘ Gelonz,’’ mentioned by Herodotus, for a colony of fur-trading merchants in the Don Valley of Scythia or Goth-land (see Map), whose city was built entirely of wood, with “ lofty’ walls and temples,* and, like the Phcenicians and Early Britons, they were worshippers of the Corn Spirit Dionysos (see later) and they came from “the trading ports’ of Greece,‘ suggesting Pheenician ancestry, as the Phoenicians were the chief traders in the ports of Ancient Greece.

In the form of AfAi/uni we actually find it used as a personal name amongst the Kassis of Babylonia, with the variant of

1See official reports of my deputation to collect ‘“* Greco-Buddhist ” sculptures from Swat Valley for Imperial Museum, Calcutta in 1895. And L, A. Waddell “ Greco-Buddhist sculptures from Swat Valley ’’ in Trans. Internat. Oriental Congress, Paris, 1897. Sec. 1, 245, etc., when the photographs of these early Gothic arches were demonstrated by me.

* Herodotus, 4, 10, 3. S7b. 4, 108, too. 4 7b. 4, 100.