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42 PHCNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

are called the sons of Agenor, the first traditional king of the Phoenicians, and their brother was Kilix,! that is the eponym of Cilicia, the ‘‘ Kihkia” of the Greeks. And the ancient Phoenician colonists from Cilicia proudly recorded their Cilician ancestry, like the author of our monument, and like the apostle Paul who boasted, saying “ I am a Jew of Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.’”? They thus not infrequently recorded their “ Cilician ’’ ancestry on their sacred monuments and tombstones in foreign colonies’, but also transplanted their cherished name ‘“ Cilicia” to some of their new colonies. Cilician colonists, like the author of our Newton inscription, were in the habit of not returning to their native land, Strabo tells us ;* and patriotically they sometimes transplanted their homeland name of “ Cilicia” to their new colonies. Thus they name one of their colonies on the

/£gean seaboard of the Troad, south of Troy, “ Cilicia.’’® This now leads us to the further discovery of an early-Phceni-

cian Cilician seaport colony in South Britain, at Sels-ey or

1 Apollodorus of Athens (abt. 140 B.c.), 3, 1-4.

2 Acts, 21, 39.

3 Just as some of the historical Briton kings were in the habit of occasionally adopting the Sun-God's title of Bel as a personal name (S.C.P., 15, 16, and 434), so their Phoenician ancestors had previously often called themselves after Bel, and sometimes adding the locality of his chief centre of worship, presumably because it was their own native home. Thus Bel was sometimes called “ Bel Libnan’”’ (Bel of Lebanon), “ Bel Hermon ” (Bel of Hermon), and similarly “‘ Bel of Tyre, Sidon, Tarsus,” etc. (cp. R.H.P., 325). Im this way “ Bel Slik” or “ Bel of Cilicia” was a not uncommon personal name recorded on the tombstones and votive monuments to Bel in Phoenician colonies outside Cilicia, and presumably by Phoenicians of Cilician ancestry. Thus in Phcenician tombstones in Sardinia, where we shall find one of the deceased bears the title of “ Payt”’ or “‘ Prat” (i.e., as we shall see, ‘‘ Barat” or ‘* Brit-on ’’), another is recorded as ‘‘ Son of Bel of Silik ” (C.1.S. No. 155 and L.P.I. No. 1); and a trilingual inscription gives the Grecianised form as “ Sillech ” (C.I.S. Vol. I, 72). This same name, I observe, is borne by many other Phoenicians on votive monuments and tombs in Carthage (ib. Nos. 178, 205, 257, 286, 312, 358, 368); and “ Silik,’”’ in combination with the divine Phoenician title of Asman,is borne by Pheenicians in Cyprus and Carthage (ib. Nos. 50, 197). Here and elsewhere, the name of the Phoenician Father-god when occurring, in the ‘‘ Semitic’ Phoenician I transliterate ‘‘ Bel,’’ as the middle letter isa solitary ‘‘ ayin,’”’ which is often rendered e, though with unwarranted licence it is usually rendered in this word aa, and arbitrarily given the form ‘‘ Baal,” to forcibly adapt it to the Hebrew “ Baal.”

4S. 673, 145 5; 13.

5 D350; oy, etce