Galatea (mythology) called Metharme ("change"), to mark the innovation." "Pygmalion" is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name "Pumayyaton": see Pygmalion of Tyre. Galatea is a dairy farming community in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Galatea (mythology) Galatea (; ; "she who is milk-white") is a name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology. In modern English the name usually alludes to that story. Galatea is also the name of Polyphemus's object of desire in Theocritus's "Idylls VI" and "XI" and is linked with Polyphemus again in the
Pygmalion of Tyre of Tyre with this hypocoristicon in the 9th century BC, Cross restores the name to "pmy(y)tn" or "p‘mytn", which is rendered in the Greek tradition as Pygmalion. This interpretation of the Nora Stone provides additional evidence that in the late 9th century BC, Tyre was involved in colonizing the western Mediterranean, lending credence to the establishment of a colony in Carthage in that time frame. In 1951, Fuad Safar published a record of tribute from Baa‘li-maanzer, king of Tyre, to Shalmaneser III of Assyria in 841 BC. There followed several studies that attempted to relate this Baa‘li-maanzer to the list