Pygmalion of Tyre Pygmalion of Tyre Pygmalion (also known as Pu'mayyaton) was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I (840-832 BC). During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone discussion below), and, according to tradition, Carthage. For the story surrounding the founding of Carthage, see Dido. A possible reference to Pygmalion is an interpretation of the Nora Stone, found on Sardinia in 1773 and,
King Island (British Columbia) join at the southern end of King Island, becoming Fitz Hugh Sound. In the Nuxalk language the island's name is Nuxalknalus, "centre of Nuxalk Territory". King Island is in area, making it the seventh largest island in British Columbia. King Island was named in 1793 by George Vancouver, in honor of Captain James King, under whom Vancouver had served as a midshipman on the "Discovery" during the latter part of the third voyage of James Cook. King Island (British Columbia) King Island is an island on the Coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located south of