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PHENICIANS AS BRITONS 53

Brihat (as seen in the heading on p. 1) and Brihad.1 This latter form, whilst thus equating with the Cymric Welsh “ Pryd-ain ” for “‘ Brit-on,”’ also illustrates the further common dialectic interchange of the dentals ¢ and d, in the spelling of this name. It also shows that the early pronunciation of this name varied considerably, and that the ¢ came early into “ Brit” or “ Briton.”]

The Cassi kinsmen of our Cassi Phoenician Briton in Babylonia and Syria-Phcenicia also used this patronym of Barat freely as a personal name or title, in the various dialectic forms of Barata, Biriitum, Paratum, Baruti, Burattu, Burta, Biriidia, Piradi, and Piritum.?

The later Phcenicians also, whilst spelling this title “ Barat’ on their coins (as we have seen in Fig. 5, p. 9) thatis, in its full orthographic form, also spelt it, I find, with

197 = parst pret FAN 97 = prvoi

Fic. 13. Phcenician Patronymic titles ‘“‘Parat’’ and “ Prydi or‘ Prudi” on Phcenician tombstones in Sardinia.?

an initial P as “‘ PRT,” thus giving practically the identical] form on the Newton Stone ; and they also spelt it as‘ Prydi,” or “‘ Prudi,” thus giving the same form as in the Cymric. Thus, for example, in the old Phcenician grave stones in Sardinia, an ancient colony of the Phoenicians, | find that, in two out of a series of eight tombstones, the Phoenician persons are so designated (see Fig. 13) ; and that in a script, closely allied to that of the Newton Stone, but written in the reversed direction with reversed letters, presumably, as already noted, for the information of a Semitic population accustomed to read their writing backwards like the Hebrews. And it is further significant that the name by which these

' Details in Aryan Origin of the Phanicians. = C_PLN., 32, 65,. 106, etc. *L.P.I., Nos. 4 (line 1), 7 (line r) and 8 (line 3) on gravestones from Nora, and now in the museum at Cagliari. E