Benin Bronzes (and writing a rant)

 

List of Obas of the Benin Kingdom-- from Wikipedia

Pre-Imperial Benin (1180–1440)[edit]

Oba Oguola. Museum of Black Civilisations, Dakar.

• Eweka I (1200 AD – 1235AD)
• Uwakhuahen (1235 AD – 1243 AD)
• Ehenmihen (1243 AD – 1255 AD)
• Ewedo (1255 AD – 1280 AD)
• Oguola (1280 AD – 1295 AD)
• Edoni (1295 AD – 1299 AD)
• Udagbedo (1299 AD – 1334 AD)
• Ohen (1334 AD – 1370 AD)
• Egbeka (1370 AD – 1400 AD)
• Orobiru (1400 AD – 1430 AD)
• Uwaifiokun (1430 AD – 1440 AD)

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Imperial Benin (1440–1897)[edit]

Orhogbua

There is some uncertainty in the dates of the reigns of some of the earlier warrior kings^[10]

• Ewuare The Great (1440 AD – 1473 AD)
• Ezoti (Reigned for 14 days)
• Olua (1473 AD – 1480 AD)
• Ozolua (1483 AD – 1504 AD)
• Esigie (1504 AD – 1550 AD)
• Orhogbua (1550 AD – 1578 AD)
• Ehengbuda (1578 AD -1606 AD)
• Ohuan (1606 AD – 1641 AD)
• Ohenzae (1641 AD – 1661 AD)
• Akenzae (1661 AD – 1669 AD)
• Akengboi ( 1669 AD – 1675 AD)
• Ahenkpaye (1675 AD – 1684 AD)
• Akengbedo (1684 AD – 1689 AD)
• Oroghene (1689 AD – 1700 AD)
• Ewuakpe (1700 AD – 1712 AD)
• Ozuere (1712 AD – 1713 AD)
• Akenzua I (1713 AD – 1735 AD)
• Eresoyen (1735 AD – 1750 AD)
• Akengbuda (1750 AD – 1804 AD)
• Obanosa (1804 AD – 1816 AD)
• Ogbebo (1816 AD – 1816 AD) (Reigned for eight months)
• Osemwende (1816 AD – 1848 AD)
• Adolo (1848 AD – 1888 AD)
• Ovonramwen N'Ogbaise (1888 AD – 1914 AD)

Post-Imperial Benin[edit]

• Eweka II (1914 AD – 1933 AD)
• Akenzua II (1933 AD – 1978 AD)
• Erediauwa (1979–2016)
• Ewuare II (2016 – present)

View along a street in the royal quarter of Benin City, 1897. Photograph: The British Museum/Trustees of the British Museum

A plaque showing an entrance to the palace of the Oba of Benin. Photograph: Alamy

 

 Benin Bronzes minutes 6-9+

someone check up on this for me.... bronzes at a zoo in the Netherlands?