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

V DATE oF NEWTON STONE INSCRIPTIONS ABOUT 400 B.C.

Disclosing special features of Aryan Phenician Script, also Ogam as sacred Sun-cult Script of the Hittites, Early Britons and Scots.

THE date of these two inscriptions on the Newton Stone is fixed with relative certainty at about 400 B.c. by paleographic evidence, from the archaic form of some of the letters in tr2 Phcenician script.

The hitherto ‘‘ unknown ” alphabetic script, in the face of the monument, I have called Aryan Phcenician, as it is written in the Aryan direction, like the English and Gothic and European languages generally, from the left towards the right, and not in the reversed or Semitic direction. This distinguishes it sharply from the later Semitic retrograde form of writing the later form of Phcenician letters which has hitherto been universally and exclusively termed ‘ Pheenician.” For I had found, as already mentioned, that the Phcenicians were really Sumerians, Hittites and Aryans; and that the Sumerian script, always written in Aryan fashion towards the right, was the parent of all the alphabets of the civilized world. .

The cursive shape of the letters in this Aryan Phcenician script suggests that the Phoenician dedicator of this inscription had written it himself on the stone with pen and ink in his ordinary business style of writing for the mason to engrave —as the practical necessity for the Phoenician merchantprinces “ to keep their accounts in order ’’ must early have resulted in a somewhat more cursive style of writing than the “ lithic ’ or lapidary style engraved on their monuments and artistic objects, a difference corresponding to that between modern business writing and print.

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