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FORMS OF CROSS, HITTO-SUMER & BRITON 293

ways like a jewel, as seen in the accompanying Figs. 40 and 47. The former Fig. gives the forms of the Cross as found on Sumerian, Hittite, Phoenician, Kassi and Trojan seals, inscriptions, vases and amulets; whilst Fig. 47 shows the identical Hitto-Sumerian and Pheenician conventional variations in the form of the Cross as found on the prehistoric and pre-Christian monuments and pre-Roman coins of Ancient Britain.

This simple equilateral form of the Sun Cross of Divine Victory, was sometimes ornamented by the Catti (or Hittites) and Sumerians by doubling its borders, so as to superimpose one or more crosses inside each other, as in the “ Cassi’ Cross (see Figs. 12, 46), and by decorating it with jewels or fruits (Fig. 46) and by broadening its free ends to form what is now called “‘ The Maltese’ Cross, which is found on the ancient Sumerian sacred seals and as amulets on the necklaces of the priest-kings in Babylonia, etc. (Fig. 46, e, E).! And it is a variety of this amulet or necklace form, with a handle at the top, or pierced with a hole above for stringing on a necklace or rosary, which has hitherto been called “* The Pheenician ”’ or “‘ Egyptian’ or Crux ansata, or “ Key of Life-to-come"’ (Fig. 7, S) ; whilst the other forms of crosses of the St. George type, though found on the same old Phoenician sites, have been arbitrarily deemed non-Phcenician. But this so-called ‘‘ Phoenician’ or “ Egyptian ’’ Cross is not uncommonly figured on Hittite sacred seals as a symbol of the Sun-god,* the reason being that the Phoenicians, as we have so repeatedly seen, were also Khatti, Catti, ‘“‘ Hatti”’ or “ Hitt-ites”’ themselves.

Another common form of this simple Sun Cross is the Swastika, which we have, carved, in the centre of the Phoenician votive pillar to Bel at Newton. This is formed from the simple “ St. George’s Cross '’ by adding to its free ends a bent foot, pointing in the direction of the Sun’s apparent movement across the heavens, 1.e., towards the right hand and thus forming the ‘“‘ Swastika "’ or what I call

* Bonomi, Nineveh, 333, etc. See W.S.C. for numerous other examples, * Fig. 40, p. 250, W.S.C., 808-9, etc., etc.