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Kindattu (, ki-in-da-tu, also Kindadu, reigned ca. 2000 BC, middle Chronology) was the 6th king of the Shimashki Dynasty,D. T. Potts (2016). The Archaeology of Elam. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. in Elam (in present-day southwest Iran), at the time of the third dynasty of Ur in ancient Lower Mesopotamia.
He is mentioned in the Shilhak-Inshushinak list of kings who did work on the Inshushinak temple in Susa.F.W. König, Die Elamischen Königsinschriften, Graz 1965; #48 Apparently, Kindattu invaded and conquered Ur (2004 BC), and captured Ibbi-Sin, the last of the third dynasty of Ur, and made him a prisoner. The Elamites sacked Ur and settled there, but then were defeated by Ishbi-Erra, the first king of the Isin dynasty in his year 16, and later expelled from Mesopotamia.
The destructions are related in the Lament for Ur:
The Lament for Sumer and Ur then describes the fate of Ibbi-Sin:
An Hymn to Ishbi-Erra, although quite fragmentary, mentions the role played by Kindattu in the destruction of Ur.
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