Abibaal

Abibaal (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤁𐤏𐤋, romanized: ʾabībaʿl, "My father is Baal") was a king of Tyre in the 10th century BC,^[1] father of the famous Hiram I. The only information known about him is derived from two passages in Josephus's Against 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 of Carthage (or from Dido's flight from Tyre) until the first year of Hiram. See the Hiram I article for details on the determination of this date.

Abibaal
King of Tyre
Reign	ended 981 BC
Predecessor	unknown
Successor	Hiram I 980 – 947 BC
Born	unknown Tyre, presumed
Died	981 or 980 BC
Dynasty	Dynasty of Abibaal and Hiram I
Father	unknown
Mother	unknown

See also

• Hiram I
• Pygmalion for discussion of date of founding of Carthage used by Menander
• King of Tyre

References

1. Miles, Richard (2010). Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization. United States: Penguin Books. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-14-312129-9.
2. Lowell K. Handy, The Age of Solomon (Leiden: Brill, 1997) 162