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PREVIOUS TROJANS IN BRITAIN 167

850 B.c., that is, about two and a half centuries subsequent to the passage of Brutus and his fleet.

The date for the prior arrival of Sylvius Alba's party may probably be placed, from the relative age of that Tiberian king (as seen in above Table), at a few decades before the arrival of Brutus, about 1103 B.c., though we shall find from the evidence of the Stone Circles and the prehistoric cupmarkings that Sumerian Barat-Phcenician merchants had formed isolated mining and trading settlements in Albion before 2800 B.C.

It was, perhaps, a memory of this invasion of the Land of the Picts in Albion by Brutus and his kinsman Duke Corineus, the descendant of the canonized Phcenician King Antenor, whose son was King Agenor (see Table, p. 161), which is referred to in a fifteenth-century Chronicle of the Scots, containing a rather confused account of the history of the Picts, when it states :—

“Ye Pechtis [war] chasyt out of yir awin landis callit Sichia (?Icht] be ane prynce of Egipt callit Agenore [the Phoenician].""?

This migration of King Brutus and his Trojan and Pheenician refugees from Asia Minor and Pheenicia to establish a new homeland colony in Albion, which event the British Chronicle historical tradition places at I103 B.C. (see Appendix I) was probably associated with, and enforced by, not merely the loss of Troy, but also by the massacring invasion of Hittite Asia Minor, Cilicia and the SyriaPheenician coast of the Mediterranean by the Assyrian King Tiglath Pileser I. about 1107 B.C. to I105 B.C.*

1 Chronicle of the Scots of 1482 a.D. S.C.P. 381.

2 This mighty Assyrian emperor, and conqueror also of Babylonia, records in his still extant inscriptions that he subdued and destroyed the chief cities in ‘the broad Land of Kumani (of the Mitannior Medes), the Land of Khatti (or Hitt-ites), and on the Upper Sea of the West (Mediterranean)”’ —Annals of Kings of Assyria. Brit. Museum 1902, pp. 82, &c. And he mentions especially his conquest of Arvad (Aradus) the old city of the Amorites and at that time, the chief city-port of the Phoenicians in the Levant, and his sailing in a Phoenician ship on ‘‘ The Sea of the West” (The Mediterranean).