The following is a list of the kings of Babylonia, a major city and empire in ancient lower Mesopotamia, compiled from the traditional Babylonian king lists and modern archaeological findings.
The Babylonian king list
The Babylonian King List is not merely a list of kings of Babylon, but is a very specific ancient list of supposed Babylonian kings recorded in several ancient locations, and related to the Sumerian king list. As with its predecessor, the Sumerian King List, contemporaneous dynasties are listed chronologically without comment.
There are two versions, known as "King List A" (all kings from the First Dynasty of Babylon to the Neo-Assyrian king Kandalanu) and "King List B" (only the two first dynasties). A third version of the list was written in Greek by Berossus. The "Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Age" is a continuation that mentions all kings from Alexander the Great to Demetrius II Nicator.[1]
Early Amorite city-states
First Dynasty of Isin
- Further information: Isin
- Further information: Larsa
- Further information: First Dynasty of Babylon
Sealand Dynasty (Dynasty II of Babylon)
These rulers did not rule Babylon itself, but rather the Sumerian regions south of it. Nevertheless, it is traditionally numbered the Second Dynasty of Babylon, and so is listed here.
Early Kassite Monarchs
- Further information: Kassites
This dynasty also did not actually rule Babylon, but their numbering scheme was continued by later Kassite Kings of Babylon, and so they are listed here.
Kassite Dynasty (Third Dynasty of Babylon)
Kassite Dynasty (ca. 1374 – 1155 BC)
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- Further information: Kassites
Dynasty IV of Babylon, from Isin
- Further information: Isin
Dynasty V of Babylon
Dynasty VI of Babylon
Dynasty VII of Babylon
Dynasty VIII of Babylon
Dynasty IX of Babylon
Dynasty X of Babylon (Assyrian)
- Further information: Neo-Assyrian Empire and Kings of Assyria
Dynasty XI of Babylon (Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean)
- Further information: Neo-Babylonian Empire
Persian Babylonia
- Further information: Persian Mesopotamia and Achaemenid Empire
In 539 BC, Babylon was captured by Cyrus the Great of Persia. His son was crowned one year later formally as King of Babylonia
Hellenistic Babylonia
- Further information: Seleucid Empire
Babylon was captured by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
See also
References
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