List of Kings of Babylon

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. [cite book|last=Meissner
first=Bruno |title=Reallexikon der Assyriologie |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |location=Berlin |date=1990 |volume=6 |page=90 |isbn=3110100517 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OIeiZaIo91IC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA90,M1]

Middle Bronze Age

Early Amorite city-states

First Dynasty of Isin

ealand 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."

Iron Age

Dynasty IV of Babylon, from Isin

Dynasty VII of Babylon

Dynasty X of Babylon (Assyrian)

Hellenistic Babylonia

Babylon was captured by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.

ee also

* Sumerian King List
* List of Assyrian kings

References