[5] In the lexical list Diri Nippur the meaning of dSIMUG is apparently switched around with dBAḪAR, with the former explained as the potter god Nunura and the latter as Ninagal.
[6] While Luděk Vacín refers to Ninagal as a goddess,[8] the consensus view presented in Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie is that he was a male deity.
[9] Ninagal was regarded as a member of a category of deities referred to as "gods of the craftsmen" (ilī mārē ummâni), which also included the likes of Ninkurra, Ninildu or Kusibanda.
[15] An Assyrian texts of the same genre from the first millennium BCE, Wood of the Sea, Planted in a Pure Place, invokes Ninagal and the carpenter god Ninildu to secure their help with the manufacture of a royal throne.
[17] An instruction from the Mîs-pî series prescribes the preparation of an offering table for him alongside those meant for other deities involved in the described rituals, such as Kusibanda, Ninildu or Ningirima.
[19] A text from the reign of Esarhaddon describing the transport of new statues of deities to Babylon mentions him in an enumeration of divine craftsmen and other figures involved in related rites.
[20] A fragmentary text enumerates Ninagal, Gibil and Ara as the three deities responsible for the creation of the "Great Copper",[21] a semi-divine agent of purification presumed to be a type of ritual bell.