Simat-Ištaran

Simat-Ištaran was a daughter of King Ur-Nammu, who was the first king of the Ur-III Dynasty in Mesopotamia, at the end of the third millennium BC. Simat-Ištaran is mainly known from cuneiform texts coming from Garšana. According to those texts she was married to the general and physician Ŝu-Kabta. This connection is never explicitly mentioned within the texts, but can be inferred. This marriage documents how the Ur-III Dynasty kings married family members to various important people in the empire.^[1] After the death of her husband, Simat-Ištaran inherited his estate and continued to manage it alone.^[2]

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^ Steven J. Garfinkle: The Kingdom of Ur, in: Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D. T. Potts (Herausgeber): The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume II: Volume II: From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon, Oxford 2022, ISBN 978-0-19-068757-1, pp. 154–155.
^ Alexandra Kleinerman: Doctor Šu-Kabta’s Family Practice, in: A. Kleinerman and J. M Sasson (Hrsg.): Why should someone who knows something conceal it ? Cuneiform studies in honor of David I. Owen. Bethesda, ISBN 978-1-934309-30-8, p. 180.

[1] Steven J. Garfinkle: The Kingdom of Ur, in: Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D. T. Potts (Herausgeber): The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume II: Volume II: From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon, Oxford 2022, ISBN 978-0-19-068757-1, pp. 154–155.

[2] Alexandra Kleinerman: Doctor Šu-Kabta’s Family Practice, in: A. Kleinerman and J. M Sasson (Hrsg.): Why should someone who knows something conceal it ? Cuneiform studies in honor of David I. Owen. Bethesda, ISBN 978-1-934309-30-8, p. 180.

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