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CATTI & CASSI NAMES ON BRITON COINS 211
In Ireland, also, there is a considerable series of these old “ Catti’? and “ Cassi” place-names in old sites, which will now be obvious to the reader.
We now see more clearly than before why the pre-Roman Briton kings, inheriting such a celebrated “Catti” and Cassi’? ancestry—an eastern branch of the latter royal clan having given to Babylonia its famous “Cassi” or “ Kassite ” Dynasty for a period of over six centuries, from about 1800 B.c. to 1170 B.c., as well as our King Part-olon, the “ Kazzi’’ or “‘ Qass”’ of the Newton Stone monument in Scotland—should have proudly stamped these treasured ancestral titles on their coins in Early Britain.
Of these pre-Roman Briton coins, in gold, electrum, tin or or bronze, bearing, as we shall see later, solar symbols of the Sun, Sun-Cross, Sun-Horse and the Sun-Eagle or “ Pheenix ’—as the Aryan-Cassi-Phcenicians were pre eminently Sun-worshippers—we have already seen examples of some of those stamped with the titles “Catti” and “ Cas(si)’ (see Figs. 3 and 11, pp. 6 and 48).
The name “ Catti’’ on these coins is conjectured by the chief authority on Early British coins to be the personal name of several otherwise unknown Briton “ princes,’’ who, he supposes, bore the same name ;* whilst, on the contrary, an earlier writer, the Rev. Beale Poste, supposed that it was not a personal name, but the title of an ancient British “province, state or community.’? My new historical evidence now discloses that the latter view was more in keeping with the freshly elicited facts. That title “ Catti” is now seen to designate the dynastic tribe of ruling Briton kings; and to be the literal equivalent of “ Khatti” or “ Hitt-ite,’” which was the racial title of the Phcenician Barat Aryans who worked the tin mines in Cornwall, and whose descendants or kinsmen established themselves in the interior in South Britain as Catti kings, and afterwards extended their civilizing and Aryanizing rule throughout the British Isles.
The ‘‘ Cassi ”’ or ‘‘ Cas’ stamped coins (see Fig. 11, p. 48) are the same general type as the “ Catti,’” with the same
1Sir J. Evans, E.C.B., 14 2 PPBiC, 1283;