Bodashtart Inscriptions

KAI 15-16

Bodashtart, king of Sidon, with his son and heir Yatonmilk · c. 525-515 BC · Temple of Eshmun, near Sidon (Lebanon) · other

Some thirty building inscriptions repeat that Bodashtart, grandson of Eshmunazar, expanded the sanctuary of Eshmun like the eyrie of an eagle, with a later group adding his son Yatonmilk's name to assert the boy's legitimacy as heir.