The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps
PHGNICIAN BEADS & ART IN ANCIENT BRITAIN 221
Significantly many of the motives of this “Syrian,” properly Pheenician, art are reproduced on the monuments and coins of the Early Britons. Thus, for example, the finely carved chair of ‘‘ Syrian’ workmanship found in the tomb of the “Syrian” high priest who was the grandfather of Akhen-aten (see Fig. 26) contains a sacred scene unknown in Egyptian art, but which, we shall find later (chapter XX), is common not only on Pheenician sacred seals and coins, but also on the prehistoric monuments and coins of the Ancient Britons.
Fic. 26,—Phoenician Chair of 15th century, B.c., with Solar scene as on Early Briton Monuments and Coins.
From tomb of Syrian high-priest in Egypt. (After A. Weigall.?) Note the Goat is worshipping Cross, as in Phoenician and Briton versions, pp. 334-5.
Still further fresh evidence for the Phoenician origin of the megalithic monuments in the British Isles and Western Europe has recently been elicited by the explorations of M. Siret in the ancient tumuli near megaliths of the Late Stone Age in Southern Spain and Portugal, the Iberian “half-way house’ of the Phcenicians on their sea route to
+ Life of Akhnaton, p. 48. It was found in tomb of the Syrian high priest Yuaa, maternal grandfather of Akhen-aten, and his mummy discloses him to be of a fine Aryan type (Jb., pp. 24, 28).