Tags: Monarch.
Mattan I (or Matan I or Mittin) ruled Tyre from 829 to 821 BC succeeding Baal-Eser II (Balbazer II) of Tyre/Sidon.[1] He was the father of Pygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton) king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and of Dido. As such he may be the same person as Virgil’s The Aeneid character Belus II.