Simat-Ištaran was a daughter of King

Ur-Nammu Ur-Nammu (or Ur-Namma, Ur-Engur, Ur-Gur, Sumerian: , ruled c. 2112 BC – 2094 BC middle chronology, or possibly c. 2048–2030 BC short chronology) founded the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, following several centuries ...

, who was the first king of Ur-III Dynasty in Mesopotamia, at the end of the third millennium BC. Simat-Ištaran is mainly known from cuneiform texts coming from Garšana. Accordingly 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. After the death of her husband, Simat-Ištaran inherited his estate and continued to manage it alone.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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Third Dynasty of Ur 21st-century BC women