The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

54 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Phcenicians call their graves, ‘‘ Khaby,”’ appears to be essen-

-tially the same as the Gothic term ‘“‘ Kul,” applied in Runic inscriptions to the funereal barrows of the Goths—the liquid semi-vowels y and / being freely interchangeable, as in Hal for Havry, coronel for colonel and the cockney “ arf” for “ ha/f.”’

This Pheenician spelling of the Barat title as PRT, in which the short vowels are unexpressed, as usual in Pheenician, just as they are similarly unexpressed in our Newton Stone inscription, and in the Indo-Aryan, Pali and Sanskrit, and in Hebrew, etc., thus gives a little variety in its reading. It may read either PaRaT or PaRT or PRaT, thus giving all the three forms of Parat (the equivalent of Barat), or Part, or Prat, as in the Newton Stone, and the equivalent of “Brit.” In regard to this latter form of Prat or Prwt on the Newton Stone, we shall find later that the famous Ionian navigating geographer Pytheas who circumnavigated and surveyed Britain as far as Shetland about the middle of the fourth century B.c., that is, about the time of our Newton Stone inscription, also spelt the name of Britain with an initial P, calling the British Isles “ Pyedanikai’’; and “‘ Pref-anoi’’ continued to be the name used by Ptolemy and other Greek writers for Britain and the Britons.

But, although the later Phcenicians of Cilicia, like those of Sardinia above-noted, whilst using P for B, in calling their chief city-port Tarsus, by the name of “ Parth-enia”’ or “ Place of the Parths,”’ their remnant or their Aryanized and Phcenicianized successors thereabouts, so late as about the third century A.D., nevertheless continued to call themselves “ Barats,” as seen in their coin here figured. (Fig. 14).

The first of these coins tells us that it was a coin of the “ Barats of Lycaonia,”’ which was the ultramontane portion of Cilicia to the north of the Taurus, and contained, besides the capital city of Iconium (the modern Turkish capital Konia, a city which was visited more than once by St. Paul)', also the ancient city of Barata, to the south of which (at Heraclea, the modern Ivriz), on the ancient Hittite highway from

1 Acts 14, 1 and 21; 16,2.