List of rulers of Nabatea

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, southern Syria, southern Israel and north-western Saudi Arabia.

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 I
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	Becoming vassal of Herod the Great and Rome
30 to 9 BC	Obodas III	Vassal of Rome; probably ruled a few months; previously known to history as Obodas II
9/8 BC to 39/40	Aretas IV Philopatris
	Ḥuldo, Queen
39/40 to 69/70	Malichus II
	Šagīlat, Queen
70/71 to 106	Rabbel II Soter
	Gāmilat, Queen
106	Annexed by Trajan becoming the Roman province of Arabia Petraea

See also

• Lists of office-holders

Sources

• Jewish Virtual Library: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/nabkings.html
• Ross, Martha, Rulers and Governments of the World - Vol1, Earliest Times to 1491, Bowker Publishing Company Ltd, London & New York, 1978