An Ammonite kingdom on the plateau east of the Jordan River, whose capital Rabbah underlies modern Amman; conquered by Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar II c. 580 BCE.
Conquered by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and became a Babylonian province in 582/581 BCE following Nebuchadnezzar II's Transjordanian campaign; it continued as a province under Persian and later Hellenistic rule.
Iron Age Transjordanian polities context.
Frames the Iron Age Transjordanian kingdoms and their conquest by Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylon, the political end of Ammon.