Tags: Monarch.
Pygmalion (also known as Pu’mayyaton) was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I (840-832 BC).During Pygmalion’s reign Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus Sardinia (see Nora Stone discussion below) and according to tradition Carthage. For the story surrounding the founding of Carthage see Dido.