Engraving depicting Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon. Queen of Sheba, a Biblical and Quranic figure. The tale of her visit to King Solomon has undergone extensive Jewish, Islamic, and Ethiopian elaborations, and has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in the Orient. Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, Quran, hadith and Hidden Words, a fabulously wealthy and wise king of Israel who succeeded his father, King David. Dated 19th century.