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HIS “KAST” TITLE 45

coast of the Solway, who seem to have been the same warlike tribe elsewhere called by the Romans ‘ Atte-Cotti,’’ which, we shall see, is obviously a tautological dialectic form of “ Catti”’ or “ Atti” or Hitt-ite. The substitution of the soft sibilant C, with the sound of S for the hard K, isseenin the Roman spelling of ‘‘ Cilicia ’’ for the Greek “ Kilikia ”’ and in “‘ Celt ’ for the earlier Kelt, as well as in the modern “Cinema” for ‘ Kinema,”’ etc. Now we resume our examination of the further significant titles borne by this Cilician Phoenician upon his votive monument at Newton. His “‘ Kast” (or ‘“* Kwast’’) title also is clearly a geographical one. It designates him as a native of the famous Kasta-bala, a sacred Cilician city? and the ancient capital of Cilicia about 400 B.c., that is at the actual period of the Cilician Phoenician author of this monument at Newton. Kastabala on the Pyramus River of Eastern Cilicia (see Map), and commanding the caravan trade-route to Armenia, Persia, Central Asia and the East, and the route by which Marco Polo travelled overland to Cathay,? was still the capital of Eastern Cilicia at the occupation of Asia Minor by the Romans in 64 B.c., who confirmed its Hitto-Syrian king Tarcondimo and his dynasty in the sovereignty. Onaccount ofits sacred ancient shrine (where Diana was called Pevathea? who, we shall find, was “ Britannia,”) it was called Hieropolis or “ Sacred City’ by the Seleucid emperor, Antiochus IV., about 175 B.c.,* which name occurs on its coins and other documents from that date onwards ; and some of its coins figure its deity carrying a Fire-torch,®° implying the solar Fire-cult, and others bear an anchor as evidence of its sea-faring trade.* Moreover, the upper valley of the Pyramus, above Kastabala, was called by the Greco-Romans “ Kata-onia”’ or “‘ Cata-onia,’’ that is, ““ Land of the Kat or Cat,’ which title, we shall see,

1 Its site is fixed at Budrum by local inscriptions. See M.H.A., 189; R.H.G., 342 376f., H.C.C., ci, cxxix. 2 VEN Pe * Strabo, aaa 12, 2; 2S 127 27s BHS., > HCC. , pl. 14, 3 and Os.

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