Simat-Ištaran

Simat-Ištaran (also Šāt-Eštar; fl. c. 2050 BC) was a daughter of a king of Ur at the end of the third millennium BC. It is uncertain exactly which 3rd Dynasty of Ur ruler was her father though Shulgi, Shu-Sin, and even Amar-Sin have been suggested.[1] 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 kings of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur married family members to various important people in the country.[2] After the death of her husband, Simat-Ištaran inherited his estate and continued to manage it alone.[3]

References

  1. ^ Saadoon, Abather Rahi. "Sumerian texts from the archive of the princess Šāt-Eštar in the collections of the Iraq Museum." Iraq 80 (2018): 213-231
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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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