Amminadab I (

Ammonite Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...

: 𐤏𐤌𐤍𐤃𐤁 *''ʿamīnādāb''; Akkadian: 𒄠𒈪𒈾𒀜𒁉 ''am-mi-na-ad-bi''; "my people are generous") was king of

Ammon Ammon (; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; '; ) was an ancient Semitic languages, Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Wadi Mujib, Arnon and Jabbok, in present-d ...

c. 650 BCE. He is mentioned in

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n inscriptions from the reign of Assurbanipal. He was one of the rebellious client kings punished by Assurbanipal during the latter's

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n campaign. He is mentioned on an inscription on a bottle unearthed at Tel Siran in

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, which inscription reads:'' 'mndb mlk bn'mn'' (

: 𐤏𐤌𐤍𐤃𐤁 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍) / ''bn hsl'l mlk bn'mn'' (

: 𐤁𐤍 𐤄𐤔𐤋𐤀𐤋 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍) / ''bn'mndb mlk bn'mn'' (

: 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍𐤃𐤁 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍) "Amminadab Iking of the Ammonites son of Hassal'il king of the Ammonites son of Amminadab king of the Ammonites "Robert Deutsch
A Royal Ammonite Seal Impression
.

References

{{reflist Kings of Ammon 7th-century BC people