List of rulers of Elam


This is a list of rulers of Elam from earliest times to the Persian Empire. All dates are middle chronology.

Elamite Empire, c. 2700 – 650 BC

The Elamites were a people located in southwestern Iran, in what is now Khuzestan, Ilam, Fars, Bushehr, Lorestan, Bakhtiari and Kohgiluyeh provinces. Their language was neither Semitic nor Indo-European, and they were the geographic precursors of the Persian/Median empire that later appeared.

Minor Elamite Kingdoms, c. 2700 – 519 BC

Kings of Elymais, c. 147 BC – c. 224 AD

This section draws on Wiesehöfer and Pakzadian.
  1. Kamnaskires I Megas Soter
  2. Kamnaskires II Nikephoros
  3. Okkonapses
  4. Tigraios
  5. Darius
  6. Kamnaskires III Megas Nikephorus
  7. Kamnaskires IV with Anzaze
  8. Kamnaskires V
  9. Kamnaskires VI
  10. Kamnaskires VII
  11. Kamnaskires VIII
  12. Kamnaskires IX
  13. Orodes I
  14. Orodes II, son of Orodes I
  15. Phraates, son of Orodes
  16. Orodes III, son of Orodes II
  17. Kamnaskires-Orodes, son of Orodes II
  18. Ariobarzanes
  19. Osroes
  20. Unknown King I
  21. Orodes IV & Ulpan
  22. Abarbasi
  23. Orodes V, son of Beldusa
  24. Vologases
  25. Unknown King II
  26. Unknown King III
  27. Orodes VI