Study of epigraphs supply ample information on ancient migration but it is difficult on the part of scholars to understand the contents of the inscriptions as names therein reflect a variety of names creating confusion on their original source.
Benedict Lowe’s review of Antonio Ruiz Castellanos, Francisco Antonio García Romero, Eugenio José Vega Geán’s book, Inscripciones latinas de Jerez de la Frontera: epigrafía y contexto. Monografías. Cádiz…appears in BMCR(2018.03.24).
Epigraphy of Andalucía refers to the ancient Andhakas, and Andromachus of Homeric epics whose homeland was in Cos, same as Kosala. Similarly Jerez stands for biblical Zered and puranic Jarudhira that identifies ancient Jerusalem and the region of Ottororkorrrah(Uttara Kuru) and Byzntium. History of Cadiz is same as history of ancient Codas or the Chedis; name of Bablioteca refers to Byblos same as ancient Babylon. Frontera is no other than Oronto itself.
The entire epigraphs refer to different regions of the ancient world; it gives a picture of ancient migrants’ new settlements in Europe.
Names of Mesas de Asta, Gibalbín, Bolaños, Sevilla, Bolonia, Dehesa de la Fantasía, río Guadalete, and Jerez de los Caballeros are really very interesting. I am astonished to see how scholars who are deeply studying these epigraphs overlooked the name of Turris Lascutans and its relationship with Asia Regis; while Turris refers to Tyre same as Troy of Homeric epics, Asia Regis pinpoints the Asiae region of Ptolemy’s maps that identifies the Caspian Sea or the Erythraean Sea itself. Name of Asiae and Mesas de Asta wonderfully explains the migrants’ original homelands which are beyond soemone’s imagination. Mesas marks the “Megas’ or the Magis; and Asta is the exact Astagrama or the Easter islands where the original homeland of the Magis was in Shechem.
The dipthongs ‘ai’ and ‘ei’ are wrongly interpreted by scholars who are not associated with these names as names of places. Even ‘Dei’ and ‘Dio’ identify certain geographical regions that locate women’s settlements and also place of women of reputation in the locality.
The four tiles stamped with the name of M. Petrucidius refer to latter’s nativity at Petra and his real name being Cidius again as same as Cedar.
Emigrants’ settlements in the ‘peninsula of Ceretanus at Jerez de los Caballeros that finds the procurator Sextus Iulius Possessor received a dedication from the scapharii to be used in the tower of the Giralda in Sevilla’ makes a wonderful statement of history. Here scapherii means the river ‘Kaberi’ which was flowing nearby; it does not mean ‘shippers of boats’.
The history of Jerez during the Visigothic and Byzantine periods holds the mirror to the ancient history of migration from the ‘first land’ to Europe and elsewhere.
The Second Synod of Sevilla( in November 619) identifies Arvela same as/ or Albela /or Alburg again the same as Alaba, one of the most important places in the ancient world and this goes along with Mt Gerizim, known to the epigraphs as Giralda(tower of) . Visigothis or Visi-gothic is again its neighbouring place Bisala same as Besileion of the Kgs.
Both chi rho and the name Aelia in the inscription recording the dedication of a reliquary by the bishop of Asido on 25 May 648 refers to Sidon which stood in the Asiae region or on the bank of the river Assien or Acessine. Asido Caesarina mentioned here marks the Sidon under the Roman Caesarea at that time. Chi-rho is same as Chios and Cheras. This name is seen in the records of the Easter island where it is mentions as In-Chera. This marks the settlements of the Sea People. Aelia is Aulis or Adulis of marine history, and the Periplus marks this place near Barygaza. This name also pinpoints a place in Ulysses journey from Troy to Ithica. Here Adulis may not be the same as Aelia as another place in this name exists at nearby distance but does not show it as an ancient port.
Gaditanian families of the first century BC identify the ‘Gad’ settlements, or the Dan settlements to which Indian puranas know Gadhi or Gadi people’s settlements.
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