Mattan, Matan, or Mittin ruled Tyre from 829 to 821 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.The primary information related to Mattan I comes from Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i.18.