Bodashtart

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Bodashtart

| title =

| succession = {{hlist |King of Sidon }}

| reign = {{circa| 525 BC| 515 BC}}

| predecessor = Eshmunazar II

| successor = Yatonmilk

| issue = Yatonmilk

| era name =

| era dates =

| religion = Canaanite polytheism

| native_lang1 = Phoenician language

| native_lang1_name1 = {{script|Phnx|𐤁𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕}}

| dynasty = Eshmunazar I dynasty

}}

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File:Dédicaces du roi sidonien Bodashtart (20).jpg, currently on display at the Louvre|alt=An image of symbols etched on three block of stones.]]

Bodashtart (also transliterated Bodʿaštort, meaning "from the hand of Astarte"; {{Langx|phn|𐤁𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕}}) was a Phoenician ruler, who reigned as King of Sidon ({{circa| 525}} – {{circa| 515 BC}}), the grandson of King Eshmunazar I, and a vassal of the Achaemenid Empire. He succeeded his cousin Eshmunazar II to the throne of Sidon, and scholars believe that he was succeeded by his son and proclaimed heir Yatonmilk.

Bodashtart was a prolific builder, and his name is attested on some 30 eponymous inscriptions found at the Temple of Eshmun and elsewhere in the hinterland of the city of Sidon in Lebanon. The earliest discovered of Bodashtart's inscriptions was excavated in Sidon in 1858 and was donated to the Louvre. This inscription dates back to the first year of Bodashtart's accession to the throne of Sidon and commemorates the building of a temple to the goddess Astarte. The Temple of Eshmun podium inscriptions were discovered between 1900 and 1922 and are classified into two groups. The inscriptions of the first group, known as KAI 15, commemorate building activities in the temple and attribute the work to Bodashtart. The second group of inscriptions, known as KAI 16, were found on podium restoration blocks; they credit Bodashtart and his son Yatonmilk with the construction project and emphasise Yatonmilk's legitimacy as heir. The most recently discovered inscription as of 2020 was found in the 1970s on the bank of the Bostrenos River, not far from the Temple of Eshmun. The inscription credits the King with the building of water canals to supply the temple in the seventh year of his reign.

Three of Bodashtart's Eshmun temple inscriptions have been left in place; the others are housed in museums in Paris, Istanbul, and Beirut. Bodashtart is believed to have reigned for at least seven years, as evidenced by the Bostrenos River bank inscription. Little is known about his reign other than what has been learned from his dedicatory inscriptions.

Etymology

The name Bodashtart is the Romanized form of the Phoenician {{script|Phnx|𐤁𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕}}, meaning "from the hand of Astarte".{{Sfn|Gordon|Rendsburg|Winter|1987|p=137}} Spellings of the King's name include: Bdʿštrt,{{Sfn|Thomas|2014|p=143}} Bad-ʿAštart,{{Sfn|Torrey|1902|p=161}} Bodʿashtart,{{Sfn|Amadasi Guzzo|2012|p=12}} Bodʿastart,{{Sfn|Dupont-Sommer|1949|p=126}} Bodaštart,{{Sfn|Stucky|2002|p=69}} Bodʿaštort,{{Sfn|Milik|1967|p=575}} Bodachtart,{{Sfn|Bordreuil|2002|p=105}} and Bodashtort.{{Sfn|Halpern|2016|p=19}}

Chronology

The absolute chronology of the kings of Sidon from the dynasty of Eshmunazar I has been much discussed in the literature; traditionally placed in the course of the fifth century BC, inscriptions of this dynasty have been dated back to an earlier period on the basis of numismatic, historical, and archaeological evidence. A comprehensive examination of the dates of the reigns of these Sidonian kings has been presented by the French historian Josette Elayi who shifted away from the use of biblical chronology. Elayi used all the available documentation of the time and included inscribed Tyrian seals and stamps excavated by the Lebanese archaeologist Maurice Chehab in 1972 from Jal el-Bahr, a neighbourhood in the north of Tyre,{{Sfn|Kaoukabani|2005|p=4}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=2}}{{Sfn|Chéhab|1983|p=171}}{{Sfn|Xella|López|2005b|p=}}{{Sfn|Greenfield|1985|pp=129–134}} Phoenician inscriptions discovered by the French archaeologist Maurice Dunand in Sidon in 1965,{{Sfn|Dunand|1965|pp=105–109}} and the systematic study of Sidonian coins, which were the first dated coins in antiquity, bearing minting dates corresponding to the specific years of the reigns of the Sidonian kings.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=2}}{{Sfn|Elayi|Elayi|2004|p=}} Elayi placed the reigns of the descendants of Eshmunazar I between the middle and the end of the sixth century; according to her work, Bodashtart reigned from {{circa}}525 BC to {{circa}}515 BC.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|pp=22, 31}}{{Sfn|Amadasi Guzzo|2012|p=6}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2018a|p=234}}

Historical context

File:Assyrian_-_Fragments_of_Bands_from_a_Gate_-_Walters_542335_-_View_A.jpgn palace gate depicting the collection of tribute from the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon (859–824 BC). British Museum.]]

Sidon, which was a flourishing and independent Phoenician city-state, came under Mesopotamian occupation in the ninth century BC. The Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) conquered the Lebanon mountain range and its coastal cities, including Sidon.{{Sfn|Bryce|2009|p=651}} In 705, King Luli joined forces with the Egyptians and Judah in an unsuccessful rebellion against Assyrian rule,{{Sfn|Netanyahu|1964|pp=243–244}}{{Sfn|Yates|1942|p=109}} but was forced to flee to Kition with the arrival of the Assyrian army headed by Sennacherib. Sennacherib instated Ittobaal on the throne of Sidon and reimposed the annual tribute.{{Sfn|Elayi|2018b|p=58}} When Abdi-Milkutti ascended to Sidon's throne in 680 BC, he also rebelled against the Assyrians. In response, the Assyrian king Esarhaddon captured and beheaded Abdi-Milkutti in 677 BC after a three-year siege; Sidon was stripped of its territory, which was awarded to Baal I, the king of rival Tyre, and loyal vassal of Esarhaddon.{{Sfn|Bromiley|1979|pp=501, 933–934}}

Sidon returned to its former level of prosperity while Tyre was besieged for 13 years (586–573 BC) by the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II.{{Sfn|Aubet|2001|pp=58–60}} After the Achaemenid conquest in 539 BC, Phoenicia was divided into four vassal kingdoms: Sidon, Tyre, Byblos and Arwad.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=1}}{{Sfn|Boardman|Hammond|Lewis|Ostwald|2000|p=156}} Eshmunazar I, a priest of Astarte and the founder of his namesake dynasty, became King of Sidon around the time of the Achaemenid conquest of the Levant.{{Sfn|Zamora|2016|p=253}} During the first phase of Achaemenid rule, Sidon flourished and reclaimed its former standing as Phoenicia's chief city, and the Sidonian kings began an extensive program of mass-scale construction projects, as attested in the Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II and Bodashtart inscriptions.{{Sfn|Zamora|2016|p=253}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=7}}{{Sfn|Pritchard|Fleming|2011|pp=311–312}}

Epigraphic sources

{{Main|Bodashtart inscriptions}} File:Echnoum Libanon 026.jpg.|The ashlar podium at the Temple of Eshmun, Bustan el-Sheikh (near Sidon)]]Bodashtart was a prolific builder who carved his eponymous inscriptions found at the Temple of Eshmun and elsewhere in the hinterland of the city of Sidon in Lebanon. The earliest discovered of the inscriptions, known today as CIS I 4, was found during excavations in Sidon in 1858. It was donated by French archaeologist Melchior de Vogüé to the Louvre where it is housed today.{{Sfn|Vogüé|1860|p=55}}{{Sfn|Zamora|2007|p=100}} The interpretation of inscription CIS I 4 is still a matter of debate; some scholars construe the text as a commemoration of building a temple to Astarte during the first year of Bodashtart's reign, while others posit that the text records the dedication of the Sharon plain to the temple of said goddess.{{NoteTag|1." Au mois de MP' dans l'année de son accession

2. à la royauté (lit. de son devenir roi), du roi Bod'ashtart

3. roi de Sidon, voici que le roi Bod'ashtart

4. roi de Sidon construisit ce SRN du pays

5. de la mer pour sa divinité Astarté ".

In English: 1.'In the month of MP' in the year of his accession

2. to royalty (lit. of his becoming king), of King bod'ashtart

3. King of Sidon, behold, King bod'ashtart

4. King of Sidon built this SRN of the land

5. of the sea for his deity Astarte ".{{sfn|Amadasi Guzzo|2012|p=9}}|name=|group=}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=7}}{{sfn|Bonnet|1995|p=215}}{{sfn|Amadasi Guzzo|2012|p=9}}

The Sidonian king carried out an extensive expansion and restoration project of the Temple of Eshmun, where he left some 30 dedicatory Phoenician inscriptions at the temple site that are divided into two groups belonging to two construction phases.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=5}}{{Sfn|Chabot|Clermont-Ganneau|1905|pp=154–160}} The first phase of the construction project involved adding a second podium at the base of the temple.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=5}} During this construction phase, a first group of inscriptions (known as KAI 15) were carved on the added podium's foundation stones. These inscriptions commemorate the construction project and attribute the work to Bodashtart alone.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=7}}{{Sfn|Xella|López|2005a|p=119}} The second set of inscriptions (KAI 16) was placed on ashlar restoration stones. The KAI 16 inscriptions mention Bodashtart and his son Yatonmilk, emphasize the latter's legitimacy as heir,{{NoteTag|Yatonmilk is referred to by Bodashtart as BN ṢDQ, meaning "true son" or "pious son".{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=5}}}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=7}}{{Sfn|Xella|López|2005a|p=119}} and assign him a share of credit for the construction project.{{sfn|Halpern|2016|p=19}}{{Sfn|Conteneau|1924|p=16}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2018a|p=234}} Yatonmilk is believed to have succeeded Bodashtart to the throne of Sidon as is inferred from the Bodashtart inscriptions. There is no further extant literary or archaeological evidence left by Yatonmilk himself.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|pp=5, 8}}File:Bodashtart 1.png inscription of King Bodashtart found on the Temple of Eshmun's podium. Bustan el-Sheikh, Sidon, 6th century BC.{{Sfn|Conteneau|1924|pp=|p=16}} It belongs to the KAI 16 group of Bodashtart inscriptions that mention both the King and his heir Yatonmilk.|alt=alt= Phoenician writing from right to left. First line reads: Mēm Lāmedh Kaph Bēth Dāleth ʼAyin Šin Tāw Rēš Tāw Nun Bēth Nun ṣādē Dāleth Qōph Yōdh Tāw Nun Mēm Lāmedh Kaph Mēm Lāmedh Kaph ṣādē Dāleth Nun Mēm. Second line reads: Bēth Nun Bēth Nun Mēm Lāmedh Kaph ʼĀleph Šin Mēm Nun ʼAyin Zayin Rēš Mēm Lāmedh Kaph ṣādē Dāleth Nun Mēm ʼĀleph Yōdh Tāw Hē Bēth Tāw Zayin. Third line reads: Bēth Nun Lāmedh ʼĀleph Lāmedh Yōdh Lāmedh ʼĀleph Šin Mēm Nun Šin Rēš Qōph Dāleth Šin]]The KAI 15 and KAI 16 inscriptions were excavated from the Temple of Eshmun site between 1900 and 1922. Three of these inscriptions were left {{Lang|la|in situ|italic=}} while the rest were removed to the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, and the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut.{{Sfn|Bordreuil|Gubel|1990|pp=493–499}}

According to the American archaeologist and historian Charles Torrey and the Polish biblical scholar Józef Milik, the Bodashtart's KAI 15 inscriptions commemorate the building of the Eshmun temple and indicate the names of the quarters and territories of the Kingdom of Sidon.{{NoteTag|mlk bdʿštrt mlk ṣdnm bn bn mlk ʾšmnʿzr mlk ṣdnm bṣdn ym šmm rmm ʾrṣ ršpm ṣdn mšl ʾš bn wṣdn šd ʾyt hbt z bn lʾly lʾšmn šd qdš Je traduirais ce texte difficile de la façon suivante; j'ajoute des explications entre parenthèses: "Le roi Bodʿaštort, roi des Sidoniens, petit-fils du roi Esmunʿazor, roi des Sidoniens, (qui règne, ou: qui habitent) dans la Sidon maritime (c.-à-d. dans la plaine côtière, avec ses zones ou quartiers du) Ciel-Haut, Terre-des-Rešafim, Sidon (de résidence, ou: de propriété) Royale, (les quartiers) qui en font partie, ainsi que dans la Sidon continentale (à savoir, dans le territoire de montagne, qui allait jusqu'à l' Anti-Liban et la vallée du Jourdain) – ce temple-ci, il (l') a construit à son dieu Eshmun du Territoire Saint".{{Sfn|Milik|1967|p=575}}}}{{Sfn|Milik|1967|p=575}}{{Sfn|Torrey|1937|p=407}} Torrey interpreted the inscription thus: "The king, Bad-ʿAštart, king of the Sidonians, grandson of king ʾEšmunazar, king of the Sidonians; reigning in [or ruling over] Sidon-on-the-Sea, High-Heavens, [and] Rešep District, belonging to Sidon; who built this house like the eyrie of an eagle; (he) built it for his god Ešmun, the Holy Lord [Prince]."{{Sfn|Torrey|1902|p=161}}{{Sfn|Teixidor|1969|p=332}}{{NoteTag|Cf. : Eiselen 1907,{{sfn|Eiselen|1907| p=144}} and Münnich 2013,{{sfn|Münnich| 2013| p= 240}} for other KAI 15 translations.}}

The KAI 16 Bodashtart inscriptions read: "King BDʿŠTRT and the legitimate (ṣdq) son, YTNMLK, King of the Sidonians, grandson of King Eshmunazor, King of the Sidonians, built this temple for the god ʾEšmun, the holy prince".{{Sfn|Thomas|2014|p=143}}{{Sfn|Dussaud|1923|p=149}}{{Sfn|Xella|López|2005a|p=121}} Another translation reads: "King Bodashtart, and his pious son (or legitimate successor), Yatonmilk, king of the Sidonians, descendants (bn bn) of King Eshmunazar, king of the Sidonians, this house he built to his god, to Eshmun, lord/god of the sanctuary".{{sfn|Halpern|2016|p=20}}

Another {{Lang|la|in situ}} inscription was recorded in the 1970s by Maurice Chéhab on the Bostrenos River bank {{Convert|3|km|mi|abbr=}} upstream from the Temple of Eshmun. The inscription credits Bodashtart with the building water installations to supply the temple and dates the work to the seventh year of his reign, which indicates that he ruled for at least this length of time.{{NoteTag|"1.{{nbsp}}... dans l’année sept de son règne (litt. de son être roi) le roi Bod'ashtart

2. roi de Sidon petit-fils du roi Eshmun‘azor roi de Sidon /(3a)qui avait construit/ dans Sidon de la Mer,

3. Cieux élevés, Pays des Resheps, en outre, à Sidon des Champs voici qu'il construisit et fit le roi Bod'ashtart roi de Sidon ce/le (?){{nbsp}}... "

In english: "1.{{nbsp}}... in year seven of his reign (litt. of his being king) King Bod'ashtart

2. King of Sidon grandson of King Eshmun'azor King of Sidon / (3a) who had built / in Sidon of the Sea,

3. High heavens, Land of the Resheps, moreover, in Sidon of the fields behold, he built and made the King bod'ashtart King of Sidon this / the (?){{nbsp}}... " {{sfn|Amadasi Guzzo|2012|p=11}}|name=|group=}}{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=7}}{{Sfn|Xella|López|2004|p=294}}{{sfn|Amadasi Guzzo|2012|pp=6, 11}}{{Sfn|Chéhab|1983|p=171}}

Apart from inscriptions detailing Bodashtart's building activity, little is known about his reign.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=7}}

Genealogy

Bodashtart was a descendant of Eshmunazar I's dynasty. Eshmunazar's heir was his son Tabnit, who fathered Eshmunazar II from his sister Amoashtart. Tabnit died before the birth of Eshmunazar II, and Amoashtart ruled in the interlude until the birth of her son, then was co-regent until he reached adulthood. Bodashtart was the nephew of Tabnit and Amoashtart and acceded to the throne after the death of Eshmunazar II at the young age of fourteen.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|p=5}}{{sfn|Lipiński|1995|pp=135–451}}{{Sfn|Gibson|1982|p=105}} Some scholars misidentified Yatonmilk as the father of Bodashtart;{{sfn|Bordreuil|Gubel|1990|p=496}} this was successfully contested by later epigraphists.{{Sfn|Elayi|2006|pp=5, 7}}{{sfn|Bonnet|1995|p=216}}{{Sfn|Xella|López|2005a|p=121}}

{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ESH | | | | | | | | | | | | ESH=Eshmunazar I}}

{{Tree chart| | | | | | TAB |~|~| y |~|~| AMO | | | | | | ??? |TAB=Tabnit|AMO=Amoashtart|???=?}}

{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | |ESM| | | | | | | | | |BOD| ESM=Eshmunazar II | BOD=Bodashtart}}

{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |YTN| YTN=Yatonmilk}}

Notes

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