Damiq-ilishu

Four royal inscriptions are extant including cones celebrating the building of the wall of Isin, naming him as "Damiq-ilišu is the favorite of the god Ninurta" also recollected in a year-name and "suitable for the office of en priest befitting the goddess Inanna.

A cone records the construction of a temple, the é-ki-tuš-bi-du10, "House – its residence is good," possibly for the deity Nergal of Uṣarpara.

Rīm-Sîn's year 25 (c. 1797 BC) is named "Year the righteous shepherd Rim-Sin with the powerful help of An, Enlil, and Enki seized the city of Damiq-ilišu, brought its inhabitants who had helped Isin as prisoners to Larsa, and established his triumph greater than before."

This setback seems to have crippled the tottering Isin state enabling Sîn-muballiṭ of Babylon to pillage the city in 1796 BC, during his year 16.

[nb 2][3] Rīm-Sîn's year 29 (1793) recalls "Year in which Rīm-Sîn the righteous shepherd with the help of the mighty strength of An, Enlil, and Enki seized in one day Dunnum the largest city of Isin and submitted to his orders all the drafted soldiers but he did not remove the population from its dwelling place."