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

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

• Lists of office-holders

References

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

Sources

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