Simat-Ea (Me-Ea, reading uncertain) was a concubine of

Shulgi Shulgi ( dšul-gi,(died c. 2046 BC) formerly read as Dungi) of Ur was the second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur. He reigned for 48 years, from (Middle Chronology). His accomplishments include the completion of construction of the Great ...

, second king of the

Third Dynasty of Ur The Third Dynasty of Ur or Ur III was a Sumerian dynasty based in the city of Ur in the 22nd and 21st centuries BC ( middle chronology). For a short period they were the preeminent power in Mesopotamia and their realm is sometimes referred to by ...

. 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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Literature

*{{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