Adadnadinakhe bricks

The name "Adadnadinakhe" appears in multiple spellings in scholarly literature, including "Adad-nadin-ahhe", "Adad-nadin-akhe," "Adadnadinache," and "Adadnadinaché".

One theory is that it was used to invoke the protection of the god Adad in the construction of various religious and public buildings.

The Adadnadinakhe bricks were discovered in Girsu (modern Telloh), including in the E-ninnu temple.

William Hayes Ward wrote of seeing the bricks at Ernest de Sarzec’s excavations in Girsu in 1885.

Various theories have been advanced regarding their original use:[5] In 2024, Sébastien Rey of the British Museum's 2016-22 "Girsu Project", described their conclusions that the reason that the bricks were found among earlier artefacts is that Adadnadinakhe unearthed the statues of Gudea in order to add local legitimacy to his new Hellenistic shrine.