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Kindattu (, ki-in-da-tu, also Kindadu; died 2001 BC) 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 c. 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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