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
254 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
deciphered by means of the hitherto unnoticed Sumerian writing of about 3000 B.c. associated with them,: confirm and establish the Sumerian origin of these cup-markings, and extend our knowledge of their meaning and use. They are found in Troy solely with the Sun-cult, and associated with the same solar symbols and Crosses as are the circles on the coins and monuments of the Ancient Britons (see Figs. later)—who, by their own tradition, came from Troy.
The Sumerian writing on the Trojan amulets is in the archaic script which is found on the earliest sacred Sumerian seals and tablets of about 4000-3000 B.c. And it discovers unequivocally that these cup-marks with their associated True Crosses and Swastikas are prayers to the One God for resurrection from the dead, “ like the Sun” in its supposed resurrection from the nether regions of Death and Darkness. This now explains why in Babylonia sacred seals, in series with these, were found attached to the wrists of skeletons in tombs,” and why the seals from Cyprus, which frequently contain these circles, single and in groups, were found almost exclusively in Phenician tombs of the Copper-Bronze Age ;3 and why, in Britain, the cup-markings are mainly found on sepulchral dolmens and on stones in funereal barrows.
The cups on these Trojan amulets (see Fig. 31, p. 238), and reduced sometimes to dots on the smaller ones, it will be noticed, are arranged sometimes single (I =God, The One), but usually in groups of 2(=The Sun), 3 (=Earth or Death), 5(=Archangel Tas or “ Teshub Mikal, who, we shall see, is the Archangel “‘ Michael ’’) ; whilst 7(/Heaven) and 4(Mother, quarters or “multitude’’) are also not infrequent. The Crosses figured are in the form of the True Cross in elongated form (which is seen in a in the Figure to spring from the tayed Sun) or equal-rayed of St. George’s Cross shape (@ and g) or as Swastikas (straight-footed c, e, f, etc., or curved-footed a, 6). And it is significant that these early
1In attempts hitherto at deciphering the writing on Trojan seals and whorls, it has been assumed that the script is a form of Cyprus writing (Sayce, S.I., 691, etc.), with more or less doubtful alphabet. But the script on the whorls here figured (a-d, 7, %) is unequivocally Sumerian, as attested by the references to the signs in the Standard Sumerian of Briinow and Thureau-Dangin.
2 W.S.C.,, 4: 2W.S.C., 346.