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The following is a list of the Kings of Babylon, a major city of ancient Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq.
This uses the traditional Middle Chronology, although there is now reason to believe it may be too early by as much as a century.
Early Kassite Monarchs
These rulers did not rule Babylon itself, but their numbering scheme was continued by later Kassite Kings of Babylon, and so they are listed here.
- Gandash fl. c.1730 BCE
- Agum I
- Kashtiliash I
- Ushshi
- Abirattash
- Kashtiliash II
- Urzigurumash
- Harbashihu
- Tiptakzi
Sealand Dynasty (Dynasty II of Babylon)
This dynasty also did not actually rule Babylon, but rather the Sumerian regions south of it. Nevertheless, it is traditionally numbered the Second Dynasty of Babylon, and so is listed here.
- Iluma-ilum fl. c.1732 BCE
- Itti-ili-nibi
- Damiq-ilishu
- Ishkibal
- Shushushi
- Gulkishar
- Peshgaldaramash
- Adarakalamma
- Ekurduanna
- Melamkurkukka
- [1 unnamed king between Gulkishar and Ea-gamil(?)]
- Ea-gamil fl. c. 1460 BCE
Kassite Dynasty (Third Dynasty of Babylon)
Assyrian Governors 1235-1227 BCE
Dynasty IV of Babylon, from Isin
Dynasty V of Babylon
Dynasty VI of Babylon
Dynasty VII of Babylon
Dynasty VIII of Babylon
Dynasty IX of Babylon
- Ninurta-kudurri-usur 942-941 BCE
- Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina
- Shamash-mudammiq
- Nabu-shuma-ukin 899-888 BCE
- Nabu-apla-iddina 887-855 BCE
- Marduk-zakir-shumi I 854-819 BCE
- Marduk-balassu-iqbi
- Baba-aha-iddina
- [5 kings]
- Ninurta-apla-x
- Marduk-bel-zeri
- Marduk-apla-usur
- Eriba-Marduk 769-761 BCE
- Nabu-shuma-ishkun 760-748 BCE
Dynasty IX of Babylon
Dynasty X of Babylon (Assyrians and Chaldeans)
- [2 kings], 734-732 BCE
- Nabu-mukin-zeri, 732-721 BCE
- Pulu (Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria, in opposition), 732-727 BCE
- Marduk-apal-iddina II (the Biblical Merodach-Baladan), 721-710 BCE
- Sargon II of Assyria, 710-705 BCE
- Marduk-zakir-shum, 705 BCE
- Marduk-apal-iddina III, 705-702 BCE
- Bel-ibni, 702-700 BCE
- Ashur-nadin-shumi (son of Sennacherib of Assyria), 699-694 BCE
- Mushezib-Marduk, 693-689 BCE
Assyrian Sack of Babylon, 689 BCE; Babylon is rebuilt by Esarhaddon of Assyria in the 670s BCE
Dynasty XI of Babylon (Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean)
In 539 BCE, Babylon was captured by Cyrus the Great of Persia, and lost its independence.
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