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5 identifiers linking Acerbas across the web's reference databases
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Acerbas, also named as Sychaeus, was a Tyrian priest of Hercules, who married Elissa, the daughter of king Mattan I, and sister of Pygmalion. He was possessed of considerable wealth, which, knowing the avarice of Pygmalion, who had succeeded his father, he concealed in the earth. But Pygmalion, who heard of these hidden treasures, had Acerbas murdered, in hopes that through his sister he might obtain possession of them. But the prudence of Elissa saved the treasures, and she emigrated from Phoenicia. They landed and settled in North Africa, founding the city of Carthage. The name Acerbas can be equated with the name Zakar-Baal, king of Byblos mentioned in the Egyptian Story of Wenamun.