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The list of kings of Ebla includes the known monarchs of Ebla who ruled three consecutive kingdoms. For the first kingdom's monarchs, tablets listing offerings to kings mention ten names, and another list mentions 33 kings. No kings are known from the second kingdom and all dates are estimates according to the Middle chronology.

First Eblaite kingdom (c. 3100 – c. 2290 BC)

Second Eblaite kingdom (c. 2290 – c. 2030 BC)

Ebla arose again for a time during the Ur III period (c. 2100 BC) though no ruler names are yet known. It may have been a vassal of Ur for a time.

Third Eblaite kingdom (c. 2030 – c. 1590 BC)

#	Depiction	Ruler	Succession	Approx. date of reign	Comments
Isin-Larsa period (c. 2025 – c. 1763 BC)
		Igrish-Heba	Unclear succession	Uncertain, fl. c. 2000 BC
		Ibbit-Lim	Son of Igrish-Heba	Uncertain, fl. c. 2000 – c. 1950 BC
		Ib-Damu II	Unclear succession	Uncertain, fl. c. 2000 – c. 1750 BC
Old Babylonian period (c. 1763 – c. 1590 BC)
		Immeya	Unclear succession	Uncertain, fl. c. 1750 – c. 1725 BC	His grave is identified with the so-called "Tomb of the Lord of the Goats"
		Hammu(....)	Unclear succession	Uncertain, fl. c. 1750 BC	A successor of Immeya, not necessarily the direct one, the name was damaged but probably Hammurabi
		Sir-Damu	Unclear succession	Uncertain, fl. c. 1750 – c. 1600 BC
		Indilimma	Son of Sir-Damu	Uncertain, fl. c. 1600 BC
		Memal...arri? (Maratewari)	Unclear succession	Uncertain, fl. c. 1600 BC

Gallery

• Ibbit-Lim statue, dated to the third kingdom c. 2000 BC
• Seated ruler, dated to the third kingdom, exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art
• Prince Maratewari (left), crown prince of king Indilimma

References

Notes

1. Tablet TM.74.G.120 discovered by Alfonso Archi.

Citations

1. Bryce 2014, p. 16.
2. ^ Stieglitz 2002, p. 218.
3. ^ Stieglitz 2002, p. 219.
4. ^ Hamblin 2006, p. 241.
5. Frayne 2008, p. 44.
6. ^ Stieglitz 2002, p. 222.
7. Stieglitz 2002, p. 221.
8. Archi 2002, p. 25.
9. Dolce 2008, p. 68.
10. Frayne 2008, p. 3-16.
11. ^ Archi 2011, p. 5.
12. Archi, Alfonso., "The Wars of Ebla at the Time of Minister Ibrium" Altorientalische Forschungen, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 189-220, 2021
13. Biga, Maria Giovanna., "The Reconstruction of a Relative Chronology for the Ebla Texts.", Orientalia, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 345–67, 2003
14. ^ Archi 2015, p. 24.
15. Pettinato 1981, p. 27.
16. Aruz, Graff & Rakic 2013, p. 10.
17. Matthiae 2008, p. 35.
18. Matthiae 2010, p. 218.
19. Archi 2015, p. 20.
20. Matthiae 2006, p. 86.

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• Alfonso Archi and Maria Giovanna Biga, "A Victory over Mari and the Fall of Ebla", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 55, pp. 1–44, 2003
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