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
SUN SYMBOLS ON EARLY BRITON COINS 285
spelt in other mintages Asuf, etc.* which significantly is the Vedic Sanskrit name for the Sun-horse, now found to be derived from the Sumerian word for “ horse.”’? No more
Fic. 44.—Sun Symbols: Discs, Horse, Hawk, etc., on Early Briton Coins. (After Evans)?
Note varied forms of Sun’s Dise above horse, as circle, rayed, wheel, spiral, swastika, winged Disc. Also Cross in a, Horse tied to Sun in g and and the legend desv, the Vedic name for Sun-Horse. And in a the Sun-horse leaps over the Gate of Sunset, as in Hittite Seals, see Fig. 37-
complete evidence, therefore, could be forthcoming for the solar character and Hitto-Sumerian origin of these emblems
1 Asup, Eciv, Eisw, see E.B.C., 385-6, 389, 410, and C.B.G., 1, Ixxxix.
2 Sumerian Ansu (or AS 2), “ ahorse,”’ Akkad Sisz, Br., 4986, and Pinches Signatures, 5, col. 3, where it means “‘ ass.’”’ 4E.B.C., Plates: a, Pl. 411; b, 5, 14; ©, 15, 8; ad, 14, 3; @, 14, 1; , 14, 6; g, E., 2; ht, E., 4.