As with other monarchies, the kings of Babylon are grouped into a series of royal dynasties, a

practice started by the ancient Babylonians themselves in their king lists.[28][29] The generally
accepted Babylonian dynasties should not be understood as familial groupings in the same vein
as the term is commonly used by historians for ruling families in later kingdoms and empires.
Though Babylon's first dynasty did form a dynastic grouping where all monarchs were related, the
dynasties of the first millennium BC, notably the Dynasty of E, did not constitute a series of
coherent familial relationships at all. In a Babylonian sense, the term dynasty, rendered
as palû or palê, related to a sequence of monarchs from the same ethnic or tribal group (i.e. the
Kassite dynasty), the same region (i.e. the dynasties of the Sealand) or the same city (i.e. the
dynasties of Babylon and Isin).[29] In some cases, kings known to be genealogically related, such
as Eriba-Marduk and his grandson Marduk-apla-iddina II, were separated into different dynasties,
the former designated as belonging to the Dynasty of E and the latter as belonging to the (Third)
Sealand dynasty.[30]
Later historians have provided varying dynastic arrangements of the kings. The list of kings below
follows the dynastic arrangement of kings presented in Beaulieu (2018),[31] with some of the
names of the dynasties and the regnal dates of kings following Chen (2020).[32] Beaulieu (2018)
based the arrangement of the dynasties on Babylonian King List A. Beaulieu's "Ninth Dynasty"
lumps kings of what the Babylonians reckoned as a series of brief dynasties together because
these dynasties are not separated as clearly in the king list as others are, with dynastic
attributions listed after each king individually rather than after the entire sequence, as with
previous dynasties.[33] Other recent interpretations of Babylonian dynasties, as well as the version
used in the ancient Babylonian King List A, are presented in the table below, with the first and last
kings attributed to each dynasty.