Tags: Monarch.
Abdastartus (‘Abd-‘Ashtart) 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.