[Illustration: FIG. 142.--Iberian. From Akerman.] [Illustration: FIG. 143.--From Barthelemy.] [Illustration: FIG. 144.--From Barthelemy.] [Illustration: FIG. 145.--Iberian. From Akerman.] Abdera, now Adra, is a Spanish town on the shores of the Mediterranean, founded, according to Strabo, by the Tyrians, and the name thus seems to connote a _tre_ of _Ab_ or Hob. I have elsewhere endeavoured to prove that King Solomon, the Mighty Controller of the Jinns, was the Eye of Heaven or the Sun, and this emblem appears in the triangle or delta of Fig. 145: the corresponding inscription on Fig. 145 are Phoenician characters, reading THE SUN,[314] and the curious fish-pillars are almost certainly a variant of the _deddu_. In Ireland a Salmon of Wisdom enters largely into Folklore: the word _salmon_ is Solomon or Wisdom, as also is _solemn_: in Latin _solemn_ is _solennis_, upon which Skeat comments: "Annual, occurring yearly, like a religious rite, religious, solemn, Latin _sollus_, entire, complete: _annus_, a year. Hence _solemn_--returning at the end of a complete year. The old Latin _sollus_ is cognate with Welsh _holl_, whole, entire." The cognomen Solomon occurs several times in the lists of British Kings, and one may see it figuring to-day on Cornish shop-fronts in the form of variants such as Sleeman, Slyman, etc. Solomon may be resolved into the Sol man, the Seul man, the Silly[315] (innocent) man, or the Sly man, the Cunning man, or Magus. The "Sea horse" to the right, illustrated by Akerman on Plate XX, No. 8, is a coin of the Gaulish Magusa, and bears the inscription Magus which, as will be remembered, was a title of the Wandering Jew. Maundrell, the English traveller, describing his journey in the seventeenth century to Jerusalem, has recorded that, "Our quarters, this first night, we took up at the Honeykhan, a place of but indifferent accommodation, about one hour and a half west of Aleppo". He goes on to say: "It must here be noted that, in travelling this country, a man does not meet with a market-town and inns every night, as in England. The best reception you can find here is either under your own tent, if the season permit, or else in certain public lodgments, founded in charity for the use of travellers. These are called by the Turks _khani_; and are seated sometimes in the towns and villages, sometimes at convenient distances upon the open road. They are built in fashion of a cloister, encompassing a court of 30 or 40 yards square, more or less, according to the measure of the founder's ability or charity. At these places all comers are free to take shelter, paying only a small fee to the khan-keeper (khanji), and very often without that acknowledgment; but one must expect nothing here but bare walls. As for other accommodations of meat, drink, bed, fire, provender, with these it must be every one's care to furnish himself."[316]