He is mentioned in the Shilhak-Inshushinak list of kings who did work on the Inshushinak temple in Susa.

[2] 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 good house of the lofty untouchable mountain, E-kiš-nu-g̃al, was entirely devoured by large axes.

The people of Shimashki and Elam, the destroyers, counted its worth as only thirty shekels.

""The Lament for Sumer and Ur then describes the fate of Ibbi-Sin: An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag̃a have decided its fate -- to overturn the divine powers of Sumer, to lock up the favourable reign in its home, to destroy the city, to destroy the house, to destroy the cattle-pen, to level the sheepfold; (...) that Šimaški and Elam, the enemy, should dwell in their place; that its shepherd, in his own palace, should be captured by the enemy, that Ibbi-Sin should be taken to the land Elam in fetters, that from Mount Zabu on the edge of the sea to the borders of Anšan, like a swallow that has flown from its house, he should never return to his city"An Hymn to Ishbi-Erra, although quite fragmentary, mentions the role played by Kindattu in the destruction of Ur.