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

258 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

O Tas hasten (thine) ear ! The sick one of Bil’s Fire-torch, O all perfect One, O Tas, The Avi [Aryan] the Muru [Amorite] (take up) !

‘ Horse(-man) hasten, the faithful one lift up ! Cut, O Shining One, O Tas, the earth from her amidst the mound ! All perfect One Tas ! Caduceus(-holder) of the Sun, All perfect One ! In the house of Tax-the-angel (let her) abide.”

And it is significant that a large proportion of the words of this Morite tablet of about 4000 B.c. are radically identical with those of modern English, thus the second and third words, “ good girl,” occur literally in the Sumerian as “‘ kud gal” (for further details see Appendix VI., pp. 411-2).

Turning now to the prehistoric Cup-markings in the British Isles, in the attempt to unlock their long-lost meaning and racial authorship by these keys to the circle-script of the Sumerians, confirmed by the associated ordinary Sumerian script on the Trojan amulets, we find that the localities in which these cup-marks occur are precisely those which we have found associated with the early invading Hitto-Sumerians, Barats or Brito-Phcenicians. They are found engraved upon some of the stones of the Stone Circles, but mainly on funereal dolmens and stones of barrow graves usually in their neighbourhood and on rocks near Ancient Briton settlements.!_ The original and simpler form of the grouping of the cup-marks is best seen in the stones unearthed from funereal barrows and stone cist coffins of chieftains, which preserve the original group numbers of the cups more clearly than the exposed standing stones and rocks, which often have had many straggling groups of cups added by later generations, which tend to confuse the recognition of the group number of the cups. And here, it is to be noted that we are dealing solely with the true “‘ cups’ and cups with the single or double ring, and not with the many-ringed or multi-concentric circles (confined to the British Isles and

1 Tor list of chief sites of cup-marks in British Isles and Scandinavia, see

S.A.S., 14, etc.; and W.P.E., 123-7, 195. Many others have since been found.