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48 PHCNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

held the river-way up the Ganges, at their capital of Kas, the modern Benares, bordering the Panch(-dla) province of Ancient India.

“ Kasst”’ (or “ Cassi”) was the title used by the First Pheenician Dynasty about 3000 B.c., as attested in their still extant inscriptions. It was the title adopted by the great dynasty of that name in Babylonia which ruled the Mesopotamian empire for about six centuries, from about 1800 B.c., and who are now generally admitted to have been Aryans. And Kasi also occurs as a personal name of Pheenicians in inscriptions in Egypt.?

This Kasi title is thus now disclosed as the Phcenician source of the ‘“ Cassi” title borne by the ruling Briton Catti kings of pre-Roman Britain down to Cassivellaunus (see later), who minted the “ Cas”’ coins bearing the Sun-horse and other solar symbols (see Fig. rz).

Fic. 11. Cassi Coin of Early Britain inscribed ‘‘ Cas’’ with Sun-horse.

(After Poste.)*

The Early Aryan Ka€si are referred to in Vedic literature as offerers of the sacred Fire and the especial protégés of Indra. And in Babylonia the Kassi were ardent ‘“ Sunworshippers ’’ with its Fire offering ; and were devotees of the Sun Cross, which is very freely represented on their sacred seals and monuments, in the various forms of St. George’s Cross, the Maltese Cross (see Figs., Chap. XX). This fact is well seen in the engraving on the sacred official seal-

1 Details with proofs in my Aryan Origin of the Phenicians.

2 CalS!; nrI2b.ec

5 P.B.C. 45. Two of these “ Cas’”’ Briton Coins, of different mintages, and including this one, are figured by Dr. Stukeley in his oivs of the Ancient British Kings, Lond. 1765, plates 4, 2, and 3. This particular coin is also figured in Gibson’s ed. of Camden (Pl. II, 4); but Evans, in referring to the “Cas” legend (E.C.B., 231), appears to confuse it with a different coin having no Cas legend, namely Beale’s pl. iii, Fig. 7.