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GIOLN TITLE AND BRITON “WALLON” 71

“ Gilian.”* This clan-title was also used by the Britons of Brittany in its ancient form of ‘‘ Gualen,”? as well as by the Cymri for one of their chief seaports (in Carmarthen) Cetgueli, the modern Kid-welly, which, the British Chronicles tell us, was an ancient port of the Scots or Ceti (z.e. Catti).* And dropping its initial G (like the gweli in Cet-gueli becoming welly) to form “ Uallaun” it was the royal clan-title of the paramount Briton king of the Catti and Cassi of Britain, Cassi-uallaun or Cad-wallon, and also the ruling Briton clan-title throughout a great part of Britain.4 One of the latter inscriptions, with a variant of “ Katye-uchlani,” is of especial interest here. It records the early Scottish clan-title of “‘ Cat-uallauna’’ upon a monument of the second or third century A.p., near the south end of the Roman Wall at South Shields on Tyne.* This fine artistic monument of a Briton lady (see Fig. 19, p. 73), as its inscription tells us, was erected significantly by a Syrian “ Barat” from the ancient Phcenician city of Palmyra, on the old trade-route from Tyre and Beirut to Mesopotamia, a city possessing a famous temple to the Phcenician Sun-god Bel, with a colonnade nearly a mile long. Its dedicator calls himself thereon “ Barates,”’ and records that he married a lady of the “ Cat-uallauna ” clan, whose death he mourns with the single pathetic word “Alas !” Incidentally this monument is of great historical importance in showing

¥C.P.N., 77 and 8o. *“ Kad-Gualen ’’ occurs in the ancient Breton chartulary of the Abbey of Beaufort (R. Maclagan Quy Ancestors, 332).

7 N.A.B., 14; Giles’ ed. 389.

* Uellaunius occurs in an inscription at Caerleon, the ancient Briton capital at Monmouth (Corpus Inscrip., Latin. Berlin, 7, No. 126) Cat-Ualfauna as clan-title of a Briton lady in inscription of about the second century at South Shields (Ephemeris Epigraphica 4, p. 212, No. 718a). Similarly, “‘ Ceti-loin” as toyal clan-title in an inscription of about fourth century at Yarrow in Selkirkshire. Caiuuelauni occurs as name of tribe on monument of about third century at Castlesteads, Cumberland. C.B., 3, 456. Uelauni was a clan of Alpine people (Corpus Inscript. Latin. 5, No. 7817, 45) and Uelaunis, a man’s name or title in Ancient Spain (ib. 3, No. 1580, 1590), where “ Cat-alonia” is the name of an old province of the Phoenicians there.

* For details of this monument see Northumberland Archeolog. Socy.’s E phemeris in previous note. Ihave personally examined this fine sculpture more than once in company with my old friend Dr. Jas. Drummond, formerly resident there, and to whom I am indebted for fine photos of the monyment and its inscriptions by Miss Flagg.