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214 PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

of Spain, and in the coims of Pheenicia and Cilicia,* and absent in the Macedonian stater, is figured both as a solitary ear of corn and as crossed ears to form the sign of the Sun-Cross, as we shall seelater. For the Barat Catti and Cassi, although seamen, were also essentially Aryan agriculturalists; and, as we have seen, their kinsmen, the Cassis of Babylonia, ploughed and sowed as a religious rite under the Sign of the Cross (see Fig. 12, p. 49). Now, the solitary ear of corn on the Briton coins is exactly paralleled in design in the early coin of Metapontum in the Taranto Gulf of Southern Italy, of about 600-480 B.c., which was presumably a port of the Pheenicians.? And we find it in the Phcenician coins of Cilicia, and in the early Trojan amulets associated with Hitto-Sumerian inscriptions (see later Figures).

[This sea-port of Metapontum was traditionally founded by Nestor on his return from the Trojan War ;* and it stands only about 200 miles due west, across the mouth of the Adriatic from Epirus, whence Brutus came with his bride. Nestor, significantly, moreover, was a friend and associate of Peirithoos (i.e., Brutus), and assisted the latter along with Coronus Caineus (i.e., Corineus) in rescuing Peirithoos’ bride from the Kentaurs of Epirus. Metapontum, or Metabum, was a famous ship-building port, as well as noted for its agriculture and ‘“ golden corn,’’§ on the borders of the Bruitii land of S. Italy,* and appears to have been actually within the Land of the Bruttii,? who, we have seen, were Barat Phoenicians. These facts, therefore, whilst disclosing an early and presumably Phoenician source for the Ear of Corn deyice on the Early Briton coins—the Corn being part of the Phoenician solar symbolism, as we shall see—suggests that Nestor (name in series with that of the Trojan-Phcenician king Antenor and his son Agenor) was himself a Phoenician, and that his city-port

1A.A.C., Pl. iii, Figs. 1, 2, 5, and Pl. iv, Fig. 8; Pl. vi, Figs. 3, 6, 9.

2 Even in the Greco-Roman period. See H.C.P., cxx, 43, 113; and 1SH@XG@A, ido) adsy-

2See Fig. 5, Plate Vin G.A.C. This coin bears on its obverse the same Ear of Corn design in “‘ incused ”’ form, which feature is assumed to imply that the coin was ‘‘ restruck on a coin of Corinth ’’ (G.A.C., 204 and 459). But it appears to me more probable that this ““incusion”’ is a survival of the ‘‘ punch-marking,’’ which was the rule in the earliest coins, struck a century or so before this period, and that the coin was entirely independent of Corinth. Cf. S, 222: 5,2,5; and 264. Nestor was the son of Neleus, king of Pylos in S.W. Greece, south of Epirus, and accompanied Hercules in his voyage for the Golden Fleece.