Abdastartus | |
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King of Tyre | |
Reign | 929 â 921 BC |
Predecessor | Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Baâl-mazzer I) 946 â 930 BC |
Successor | Astartus (âAshtart) 920 â 901 BC |
Born | 950 BC Tyre, presumed |
Died | 921 or 920 BC |
Dynasty | Dynasty of Abibaal and Hiram I |
Father | Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Baâl-mazzer I) |
Mother | unknown |
Abdastartus ( Phoenician: đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€ âbdâĆĄtrt, possibly pronounced akin to âAbd-âAshtart) was a king of Tyre, son of Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus) and grandson of Hiram I. The only information available about Abdastartus comes from the following citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Josephus's Against Apion i.18:
Upon the death of Hirom, Beleazarus his son took the kingdom; he lived forty-three years, and reigned seven years: after him succeeded his son Abdastartus; he lived twenty-nine years, and reigned nine years. Now four sons of his nurse plotted against him and slew him.
Therefore, according to Menander/Josephus, Abdastartus began to reign seven years after the death of his grandfather, Hiram I. The dating of Hiram and the following kings is based on the studies of J. Liver, [1] J. M. Peñuela, [2] F. M. Cross, [3] and William H. Barnes, [4] all of whom build on the inscriptional evidence of a synchronism between Baal-Eser II and Shalmaneser III in 841 BC. [5] Earlier studies that did not take this inscriptional evidence into consideration will have differing dates for the kings of Tyre.
Abdastartus | |
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King of Tyre | |
Reign | 929 â 921 BC |
Predecessor | Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Baâl-mazzer I) 946 â 930 BC |
Successor | Astartus (âAshtart) 920 â 901 BC |
Born | 950 BC Tyre, presumed |
Died | 921 or 920 BC |
Dynasty | Dynasty of Abibaal and Hiram I |
Father | Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Baâl-mazzer I) |
Mother | unknown |
Abdastartus ( Phoenician: đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€đ€ âbdâĆĄtrt, possibly pronounced akin to âAbd-âAshtart) was a king of Tyre, son of Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus) and grandson of Hiram I. The only information available about Abdastartus comes from the following citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Josephus's Against Apion i.18:
Upon the death of Hirom, Beleazarus his son took the kingdom; he lived forty-three years, and reigned seven years: after him succeeded his son Abdastartus; he lived twenty-nine years, and reigned nine years. Now four sons of his nurse plotted against him and slew him.
Therefore, according to Menander/Josephus, Abdastartus began to reign seven years after the death of his grandfather, Hiram I. The dating of Hiram and the following kings is based on the studies of J. Liver, [1] J. M. Peñuela, [2] F. M. Cross, [3] and William H. Barnes, [4] all of whom build on the inscriptional evidence of a synchronism between Baal-Eser II and Shalmaneser III in 841 BC. [5] Earlier studies that did not take this inscriptional evidence into consideration will have differing dates for the kings of Tyre.