Statue of an Ammonite deified King on display at the Jordan Museum

The following is a list of rulers currently known from the history of the ancient

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ine kingdom

Ammon Ammon (Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; he, עַמּוֹן ''ʻAmmōn''; ar, عمّون, ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking nation occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in ...

. Ammon was originally ruled by a king, called the "king of the children of Ammon" (

Ammonite Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefis ...

: 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''maleḵ banīʿAmān''; he, '). After the conquest of the

Neo-Babylonian The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and be ...

and

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s, Ammon was maintained by an administrator ( ', literally "servant"; el, ἡγούμενος ''hēgoúmenos'', "leader"). Only a modest number of Ammonite kings are known today, mostly from the

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and epigraphic inscriptions.

Rulers of Ammon

Kings of Ammon

* Getal or Giteal ( he, ''Gitʾal''; early 11th century B.C.) Ammonite king unnamed in but identified by

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in his ''Biblical Antiquities''. ---- * Nahash ( he, ''Nāḥāš''; mid eleventh century B.C.) * Hanun son of Nahash ( he, ''Ḥānūn''; early tenth century B.C.) * Shobi son of Nahash ( he, ''Šōḇī''; early tenth century B.C.) ---- *

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( akk, 𒊒𒄷𒁉 ''Ruḫubi''; c. 850s B.C.) * Baasha son of Rehob ( akk, 𒁀𒀪𒊓 ''Baʿša''; 853 B.C.) ---- * Shanip (

: ''ŠNB''; akk, 𒊭𒉌𒁍 ''Šanipu''; c. 734 B.C.) * Zacchur son of Shanip (

: ''ZKR'') * Jeraheazar son of Zacchur (

: ''YRḤʿZR'', variously interpreted as ''Yəraḥʿāzār'' or ''Yariḥ-ʿezer'') ---- * Peduel (

: ''PDʾL'', variously interpreted as ''Pədūʾēl'', ''Padōʾēl'', ''Pădāʾēl'', or ''Pədāʾēl''; akk, 𒁍𒁺𒀭 ''Pudu-ilu''; c. 720s B.C.) ---- * Barachel ( ''BRKʾL''; c. 670s) ---- * Amminadab I (

: ''ʿMNDB''; c. 650 B.C.) * Hissalel son of Amminadab (

: ''HṢLʾL'', variously interpreted as ''Hiṣalʾēl'' ("Hissalel"), ''Haṣalʾēl'' ("Hassalel"), or ''Haṣilʾēl'' ("Hasilel"); c. 620 B.C.) * Amminadab II son of Hissalel (c. 600 B.C.) ---- * Baalis ( he, ''Baʿălīs'';

: ''BʿLYŠʿ'', variously interpreted as ''Baʿlyīšaʿ'', ''Baʿlyīšʿ'', or ''Baʿlīšāʿ''; 580s B.C.)

Administrators of Ammon

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( he, ''Ṭōḇīyyā''; fifth century B.C.) * Timothy ( el, Τιμόθεος ''Timótheos''; second century B.C.)

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Rulers of Ammon

Kings of Ammon

Administrators of Ammon

See also

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