List of Nabataean kings

The Rulers of Nabataea, reigned over the Nabataean Kingdom (also rendered as Nabataea, Nabatea, or Nabathea), inhabited by the Nabateans, located in present-day Jordan, south-eastern Syria, southern Israel and north-western Saudi Arabia.

The queens of the later Nabataean Kingdom figure side by side with their husbands as co-rulers on their coins.[1]

List

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Reign Name Notes
Kings of Nabataea
c. 169 BC Aretas I
120/110 to 96 BC Aretas II In some sources appears as successor to Rabbel I
c. 96 to 85 BC Obodas I
c. 85/84 BC Rabbel I In some sources appears as successor to Aretas II
84 to 60/59 BC Aretas III Philhellen Recognised by Rome 62 BC
62/61 to 60/59 BC Obodas II (?) Existence uncertain until recently; probably ruled a few months
59 to 30 BC Malichus I
30 to 9 BC Obodas III
9/8 BC to 39/40 Aretas IV Philopatris
Ḥuldo, Queen
Šagīlat, Queen
39/40 to 69/70 Malichus II
Šagīlat II, Queen
70/71 to 106 Rabbel II Soter
Gāmilat,[2] Queen
Hagaru,[2] Queen
106 Annexed by Trajan becoming the Roman province of Arabia Petraea

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Briffault, Robert (1927). The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions. Macmillan. p. 375.
  2. ^ a b The Numismatic Chronicle. Vol. 154. Royal Numismatic Society. 1994. p. 116.

Sources

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  • Jewish Virtual Library
  • Martha Ross, Rulers and Governments of the World – Vol1, Earliest Times to 1491. London & New York: Bowker Publishing Company, 1978.