Meskilak was the principal goddess of Dilmun and the consort of the tutelary god Inzak. Her name, which Gianni Marchesi reads as Sumerian me-sikil-ak, 'she of the pure divine ordinances (me)', is matched by her distinctively local Failaka writing dPA.NI.PA, read phonetically Panipa. Inzak and Meskilak were worshipped together in the temple Ekarra ('house of the quay') on Failaka and are paired in the greeting formulae of the Old Babylonian letters between an inhabitant of Nippur and correspondents in Dilmun, where both deities are asked to protect the writer. In Mesopotamian scholarly tradition her name was reinterpreted as the homonym Ninsikila, and the title Nintilmun, 'lady of Dilmun', listed in the Inanna section of the god-list An = Anum, may also denote her; the same list assigns eight divine children to the couple Inzak and Meskilak. In the late god-list An = Anu sha ameli, where Inzak is equated with Nabu, Manfred Krebernik suggests Meskilak was correspondingly equated with Nabu's wife Tashmetum. While the dominant view, followed by al-Nashef and Marchesi, makes her Inzak's spouse, an alternative scholarly proposal instead understands her as his mother.