Mattan, Matan, or Mittin ruled Tyre from 840 to 832 BC, succeeding his father Baal-Eser II.
He was the father of Pygmalion, king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC, and of Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage.
[citation needed] The primary information related to Mattan I comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus in Against Apion i.18.
Here it is said that "Badezorus was succeeded by Matgenus his son: he lived thirty-two years and reigned, nine years: Pygmalion succeeded him".
Classicist T. T. Duke states that Mattan was also known as MTN-BʿL (Matan-Baʿal, 'Gift of the Lord'), which was turned hypocoristically into King Belus of Tyre in Virgil's Aeneid.