Baalshillem I

Baalshillem I
Reignc. 450 BC โ€“ c.  426 BC
Predecessor?
SuccessorAbdamon
Phoenician language๐ค๐ค๐ค‹๐ค”๐ค‹๐คŒ‎
DynastyBaalshillem I dynasty
ReligionCanaanite polytheism
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Beige marble statue of a stout young child aged about two years old lying on his left side. The child's head is shaven, his eyes gaze over the viewer's shoulder and his lower body is covered in a draping cloth that hangs limply between his flexed feet. The child supports his torso with his left hand in which he holds an unidentifiable object, he also holds a small bird in his right hand. The sculpture rests on a heavy socle inscribed with barely visible letters spanning the upper part of the socle vertically.
Baalshillem Temple Boy: a votive (to Eshmun) marble statue of a royal child, inscribed in Phoenician, from the Eshmun sanctuary, c. 400s BC

Baalshillem I (also transliterated Baalchillem, meaning "recompense of Baal"; Phoenician: ๐ค๐ค๐ค‹๐ค”๐ค‹๐คŒ) was a Phoenician King of Sidon (c. 450 โ€“ c. 426 BC), and a vassal of the Achaemenid Empire. He was succeeded by his son Abdamon to the throne of Sidon.[1][2]

  1. ^ Markoe 2000, p. 58.
  2. ^ Elayi 2006, p. 9.