Abibaal(Phoenician:𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤁𐤏𐤋,romanized:ʾabībaʿl,"My father isBaal") was a king of Tyre in the 10th century BC,[1]father of the famousHiram I.The only information known about him is derived from two passages inJosephus'sAgainst Apion,i.117 and i.118.[2]All that is said in these passages is that he preceded his son Hiram on the throne of Tyre. Neither his length of reign nor his immediate predecessors are known. The dating of Abibaal is therefore dependent on the dates assigned to his son, and here it is only the date of Abibaal's death that can be determined, based on the information preserved in Josephus regarding the length of time between the founding ofCarthage(or fromDido's flight from Tyre) until the first year of Hiram. See theHiram Iarticle for details on the determination of this date.
| Abibaal | |
|---|---|
| King of Tyre | |
| Reign | ended 981 BC |
| Predecessor | unknown |
| Successor | Hiram I980 – 947 BC |
| Born | unknown Tyre, presumed |
| Died | 981 or 980 BC |
| Dynasty | Dynasty of Abibaal andHiram I |
| Father | unknown |
| Mother | unknown |
See also
edit- Hiram I
- Pygmalionfor discussion of date of founding of Carthage used by Menander
- King of Tyre
References
edit- ^Miles, Richard (2010).Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization.United States: Penguin Books. p. 31.ISBN978-0-14-312129-9.
- ^Lowell K. Handy,The Age of Solomon(Leiden: Brill, 1997) 162