Ningal

Ningal
Tutelary goddess of Ur
Old Babylonian fired clay plaque from Ur on display in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq depicting a goddess accompanied by Nanna’s symbol, the lunar crescent. It has been proposed that depictions of a seated goddess accompanied by a symbolic representation of Nanna might be Ningal.[1]
Major cult center	Ur, Harran
Personal information
Parents	Ningikuga and Enki
Consort	Nanna/Sin
Children	Utu/Shamash and Inanna/Ishtar Amarra-uzu and Amarra-he'ea Ningublaga Numushda Manzat (according to Maqlû) Pinikir (in a Hurrian source) Nuska (in late sources from Harran)
Equivalents
Hurrian equivalent	Nikkal

Ningal (Sumerian: "Great Queen";^[2] Akkadian Nikkal^[3]) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of the moon god, Nanna/Sin. She was particularly closely associated with his main cult centers, Ur and Harran, but they were also worshiped together in other cities of Mesopotamia. She was particularly venerated by the Third Dynasty of Ur and later by kings of Larsa.