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

260 PHUENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

the bottom left-hand corner would be the concluding “O God!” (rz cup)?!

e, This is essentially the same as d, with 2 later additionsthe large. circles with associated small cups—and as end word of the lowermost “ Heaven (7 cups) of the Sun (2 cups).”

f. This single line of 6 cups may be an invocation or votive offering by a sailor prince to the Sea-Storm-wind Spirit Mer or Muru for his safety or rescue at sea; or his personal name Mer or Muru, which was a personal clan name of the sea-going Hittites of ‘“‘ The Western Land of the Setting Sun ” or the coastland of SyriaCilicia—the ‘‘ Mor-ites’’ or ‘‘ Amor-ites’’ of the Hebrew Old Testament.

The belief in a future life of bliss associated with the Sun, entertained by our “ pagan’”’ Briton ancestors, in whose tombs such cup-markings are found, is evidenced further in the next chapter.

The date and authorship of these cup-markings in Britain are seen to be presumably the same as for the erection of the Stone Circles. That is to say, the Cup-markings were evidently engraved by the earliest wave of pioneer mineexploiting Phoenician Barat merchants of the Late Stone and Early Bronze Age from about 2800 B.c. (or earlier) onwards,* and many centuries before the arrival of Brutus and his Trojan Phcenician Barats in the later Bronze Age.

It will thus be seen that my new evidence for the HittoPheenician origin and solar character of the cup-markings

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1 By its ordinary phonetic value it = AS.

> Phoenicia and Asia Minor have not yet been explored for cup-marks, but similar cup-marks to those of Ancient Britain have been found in Palestine, which was invariably called by its Babylonian suzerains ‘‘ The Land of the Hittites.” Dr. Macalister found at Gezer and neighbourhood numerous cup-markings on rocks, monoliths, dolmens and tombs of neolithic age (Bliss and Macalister, Excavs. at Gezer, Figs. 65, 66 and p. 194, etc.), and others were found at Megiddo by Schumacher. Those figured by Macalister, especially of former figure, are in large and small cups, and in groups of 1 and 2 chiefly, also 5, 4 and 3. (See also H. Vincent, Canaan d. ! Ewploration Recent. Paris, 1914, 92, etc., 128, etc., 253.)

In the Pheenician Grave Seals from Cyprus, the Circles are mostly simple or ringed, and in groups of 2 (The Sun), but other groups also occur (see C.C. plate 12-14). And it is noteworthy that perforations (which appear to be deeper ‘‘cups’’ on the Standing Stones in Cyprus are also found in the Menan Tol in Cornwall and in a number in Gloucester (W.P.E. 194).