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

BRITANNIA OF PH@NICIAN ORIGIN 55

Ephesus and Troy to Tarsus and the Cilician Gates of the Taurus, are famous herculean Hittite sculptures and hieroglyphs, resembling those on Briton coins (see Fig. 62 in Chapter XXII). The Lycaonians in the Roman period were still confederated with their kinsmen of Cilicia. The legend stamped on this coin is “ The Commonwealth of the Lycaon Baratas *’ (Koinon Lukao Baratcon) ; and the Early Phcenician empire, we shall see later, was held together as a commonwealth by the confederation of home and colonial city-states.

Fic.14. Coins of Pheenician “ Barats ” of Lycaonia, of third century A.D. disclosing their tutelary goddess ‘‘ Barati” as “ Britannia.” +

a. From Barata City. 6. From Iconium City. Note she has the Sun-Cross or St George’sRed Cross as shield.

These coins, with others of the same type elsewhere, are of immense historical importance for recovering the lost history of the Britons in Britain and in their earlier homeland, as they now disclose the hitherto unknown origin of the modern British marine tutelary “ Britannia,’ and prove her to be of Hitto-Phcenician origin.

Usually the head only of this goddess is figured on Phcenician coins, and it is of a fine Aryan and non-Semitic type ; see for example the Pheenician “‘ Barat ” coin from Carthage (Fig. 5, p. 9), and Phoenician coins generally. In these coins of Lycaonia the general resemblance to Britannia

1a and b, after R.C.P., 368 and 415; and cp. photos in H.C.C., pl. 1,

Fig. 3 and g. Coin a is ascribed to the period of the Roman governor Otacilia Severa, 249 A.D.