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36 PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

possess more or less the same phonetic values as in the Ogam.’ Such Ogamoid groups of strokes also occur, I observed, in ancient Hittite hieroglyph imscriptions devoted to the Sun-cult and containing Sun-crosses, as in the group here figured (Fig. 8).?

Now, however, as this Ogam script is here found in the earliest of all its recorded occurrences at about 400 B.c., at Newton and in the adjoining and presumably more or less contemporary pillar at Logie (see later), inscribed upon Sun-cult votive monuments in association with the SunCross, just as quasi-Ogam letters are also found in Hitt-ite hieroglyph votive monuments of the Sun-cult, and also accompanied by Sun-Crosses, it seems to me, in view of these facts, that this bulky stroke-script, which possesses only

Fic. 8.—Ogamoid Inscription from Hittite Hieroglyphs on the Lion of Marash. (Atter Wright.)

sixteen consonants, and thus presumably not intended for

1 Amongst the similarities between the Ogam and Sumerian letter-signs which I have observed are the following :—

TI in Sumerian is written by 5 perpendicular strokes, just as in Ogam script 5 perpendicular strokes form the letter J.

E in Early Sumerian is written by 4 parallel strokes on a double baseline, which compares with the Ogam 4 parallel strokes across the ridge-line for E; and the Sumerian sign for the god EA is absolutely identical with the Ogam E with its strokes extending on both sides of the ridge-line.

dO diphthong of Ogam has precisely the same form: of inter-crossing strokes as one of the three Sumerian signs all rendered tentatively as U, but one of which was suspected to be O or diphthong U (compare Langdon, Sumerian Grammar, 35-37). It thus may, in view of the identical Ogam sign, have the value of O.

B in Ogam, written by a single perpendicular stroke, compares with the bolt sign in Sumerian for Ba or Bi.

S in Ogam, formed by 4 perpendicular strokes on the ridge-line, compares with the Sumerian S formed by 4 perpendicular strokes on a basal line, with stem below.

X or Kh in Sumerian generally resembles the letter X in Ogam, which is disclosed by the Phoenician version to have the sound of Kh or X.

2W.E.H., pl. 27, in lowest line between the paws of the Lion of Marash. This inscription significantly contains in its text a Sun-Cross.