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

56 PHG:NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

will be noticed—Britannia hitherto being supposed to have been first invented by the Early Romans in Britain in the 2nd century a.p. (see Fig. 15) in practically the identical form still surviving on our modern British penny.

Fic. 15.—Britannia on Early Roman Coins of Britain. (After Akerman.) a. Coin of Hadrian (117—137 a.v.). 6. Coin of Antonine (138—x6r a-p.).

In these Barat Lycaonian coins Barati is seated in the pose of Britannia, in the first upon a rock, and in the second on a chair (of a ship) amidst the waves, the latter being personified by a semi-submerged water-nymph, as was the conventional method of representing rivers and the sea, after the nereid model of the Lycians, in the Roman art of the period to which this coin belongs. She holds a cornucopia or horn of plenty andin herright hand, in one of the coins, an object which may be a sceptre, as is figured in her representation on many of these coins ; and in the other she holds the tiller of a rudder, indicating her marine tutelarship ; and beside her chair on board ship is the shield-like Sun Cross or St. George’s Cross within the Sun's disc, designating her to be of the solar cult. This latter emblem is now seen to be the origin of the shield bearing the Union Jack which is figured in the modern representations of Britannia, but which cannot date earlier than the Union of England and Scotland in 1606 a.p., and was previously presumably the St. George's’ Red Cross or the rayed Cross or the rayed Sun itself, as in these coins. In other coins of Cilicia, Lycaonia, Phcenicia and other Phoenician