Definition of Ningal

1. Noun. (Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the Moon god Sin.

Geographical relationships: Mesopotamia
Generic synonyms: Semitic Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ningal

Niloscopes
Nilotic
Nilotic language
Nilphamari District
Nilsson
Nimbari
Nimitz
Nimravus
Nimrod
Nimrods
Nimzo-Indian
Nina
Nina Ross
Nina from Carolina
Nineveh
Ningal (current term)
Ningbo
Ningirsu
Ningishzida
Ningxia
Ninhursag
Ninib
Ninigi
Ninigino-Mikoto
Ninkharsag
Ninkhursag
Ninlil
Ninotsminda
Nintendinitis
Nintendo

Literary usage of Ningal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician by George Albert Cooke (1903)
"Nikal is no doubt the same as Ningal mentioned by ... 1. c., Ningal (•« Nikal) is said to be the consort of Sin, and ' the mother of the great gods. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1903)
"I am tempted to see in this the Assyrian aia-Ningal, "the city of Ningal. ... show that Ningal had been borrowed by the people of northern Syria, ..."

3. Proceedings by Bruce A. Suprenant, James L. Noland, M.P. Schuller, University of Colorado (1903)
"I am tempted to see in this the Assyrian ata-Ningal, "the city of Ningal. ... show that Ningal had been borrowed by the people of northern Syria, ..."

4. Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian by Barbara N. Porter (1993)
"ABL 920 reports that a group of people from the Sealand being held by the Assyrians were long-term members of Ningal- ..."

5. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904)
"May Nabu, Marduk, Sin, Ningal, and Nusku be gracious to the king, my lord. Sin, Ningal (and other ..."

6. Sumerian Records from Drehem by William Marsiglia Nesbit (1914)
"... 1 ewe (/or) Ningal(ge) 6) I udu sam(U) 1 pastured sheep 7) ... nin-gal(MAL) (the) overseer (being) Ningal 10) itu-ta ud XVIII ba-ra-ni (when) 18 days of ..."

7. The Epistolary Literature of the Assyrians and Babylonians by Christopher Johnston (1898)
"... ("Sin protect my offspring"), to whom it is addressed, was the son of Ningal- ... Ningal has given ") ..."

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