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Elayi established that Baalshillem II's year of accession was 401 BC and that he reigned until 366 BC. īaalshillem II was the first among Sidonian monarchs to mark coins with issuing dates corresponding with the years of his reign as of year 30 which corresponds to 372 BC. 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 neighborhood in the north of Tyre, Phoenician inscriptions discovered by the French archaeologist Maurice Dunand in Sidon in 1965, and the systematic study of Sidonian coins, which were the first coins to bear minting dates representing the years of Sidonian kings' reigns.
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The most complete work addressing the dates of the reigns of these Sidonian kings is by the French historian Josette Elayi who shifted away from the use of biblical chronology.
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The absolute chronology of the kings of Sidon from the dynasty of Eshmunazar I onward has been much discussed in the literature traditionally placed in the course of the fifth century, inscriptions of this dynasty have been dated back to an earlier period on the basis of numismatic, historical and archaeological evidence. Alternative spellings of the king's name include Baalchillem.
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The king was known in contemporary Greek inscriptions as Sakton which can be interpreted as shipowner. The name Baalshillem (also Baalchillem) is the Latinized form of the Phoenician ?????? ( bʿlšlm), meaning "recompense of Baal".