Astarymus
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Astarymus (also called Aserymus; possibly Phoenician: 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤓𐤌 ‘štrrm, "Ashtar is great") was a king of Tyre and the third of four brothers who held the kingship. The only information available about him comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i.18. The entire passage about the four brothers is as follows, as given in Whiston’s translation: Now four sons of (Abdastartus’s) nurse plotted against him and slew him, the eldest of whom reigned twelve years; after them came Astartus the son of Deleastartus: he lived fifty-four years, and reig
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Key facts
- Monarch.name
- Astarymus
- Monarch.title
- King of Tyre
- Monarch.reign
- 888 – 880 BC
- Monarch.predecessor
- Deleastartus (Dalay-‘Ashtart) 900 – 889 BC
- Monarch.successor
- Phelles 879 BC
- Monarch.dynasty
- “Dynasty of the four brothers”
- Monarch.father
- unknown
- Monarch.mother
- nurse of Abdastartus
- Monarch.birth_date
- 934 BC
- Monarch.birth_place
- Tyre, presumed
- Monarch.death_date
- 880 or 879 BC
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- date of birth
- 0930-01-01
- date of death
- 0801-01-01
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Astarymus (also called Aserymus; possibly Phoenician: 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤓𐤌 ‘štrrm, "Ashtar is great") was a king of Tyre and the third of four brothers who held the kingship. The only information available about him comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i.18. The entire passage about the four brothers is as follows, as given in Whiston’s translation: Now four sons of (Abdastartus’s) nurse plotted against him and slew him, the eldest of whom reigned twelve years; after them came Astartus the son of Deleastartus: he lived fifty-four years, and reigned twelve years; after him came his brother Aserymus; he lived fifty-four years, and reigned nine years: he was slain by his brother Pheles, who took the kingdom and reigned but eight months, though he lived fifty years: he was slain by Ithobalus, the priest of Astarte.
The dates given for Astarymus (Aserymus) are according to the work of F. M. Cross and other scholars who take 825 BC as the date of Dido’s flight from her brother Pygmalion, after which she founded the city of Carthage in 814 BC. See the chronological justification for these dates in the Pygmalion of Tyre article.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Astarymus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.