Deleastartus (Dalay-‘Ashtart) was a king of
Tyre and the second of four brothers who held the kingship. The information about him has been inferred from
Frank M. Cross’s reconstruction of
Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author
Menander of Ephesus, in ''Against Apion'' i.18. In the text as it now stands for the passage in Josephus/Menander, Astartus is the name and Deleastartus the patronymic of the second of the four brothers to receive the kingship, while the first brother, the one who killed
Abdastartus
Abdastartus ( Phoenician: 𐤏𐤁𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 ''’bd’štrt'', possibly pronounced akin to ''’Abd-’Ashtart'') was a king of Tyre, son of Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus) and grandson of Hiram I. The only information available about ...
to start the dynasty, is unnamed. Cross restores Astartus as the name of the first brother and posits the supposed patronymic as the name of the second. For a further explanation, see the
Astarymus article. Cross’s reconstruction for these kings has been followed by William Barnes
[William H. Barnes, ''Studies in the Chronology of the Divided Monarchy of Israel'' (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991) 29-55.] and is used in the present article.
See also
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List of Kings of Tyre
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Astarymus
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Pygmalion of Tyre
Pygmalion (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ), was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BCE and a son of King Mattan I (840–832 BCE).
During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterrane ...
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Kings of Tyre
9th-century BC rulers
943 BC births
880s BC deaths
9th-century BC Phoenician people