Simat-Ea (Me-Ea, reading uncertain) was a concubine of Shulgi, second king of the

Third Dynasty of Ur The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century Common Era, BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians c ...

. She appears in several texts of the period, but her exact position is unknown. She was most likely a concubine of the king, but it is also possible that she was his daughter. Simat-Ea appears in several lists of royal women where these women received goods or animals. The other women in these lists are queens or concubines known from other sources providing the impression that Simat-Ea was a concubine or queen too. The lists only provide the names of these women, not the titles.

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*{{cite book, last=Sharlach, first=Tonia M., authorlink1=Tonia Sharlach, title=An Ox of One's Own, Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur, location=Berlin/Boston, publisher= Walter de Gruyter GmbH, year=2017, isbn= 978-1-5015-1447-0 21st-century BC people 21st-century BC women Third Dynasty of Ur