{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entity_relationships", "rows": [[1506, "ENT_CAN_BAAL", "received_as", "ENT_PHO_MELQART", "medium", "Melqart (\"king of the city\") is the Iron Age Phoenician development of the Bronze Age Baal/Hadad storm-and-kingship deity tradition from Ugarit. The \"Baal of Tyre\" condemned in 1 Kings 16:31 (the god of Ahab's Sidonian wife Jezebel) is identified with Melqart by scholars (Markoe 2000, Cross 1973). The dying-and-rising element of Melqart \u2014 his annual egersis (awakening) rite documented in Menander of Ephesus (via Josephus, Against Apion 1.118-119) \u2014 continues the Dumuzi/Tammuz dying-deity pattern that entered Phoenicia from Mesopotamia. The continuity between Baal (Ugaritic Bronze Age) and Melqart (Tyrian Iron Age) is strong but the Iron Age deity has a distinct city identity, making this a received_as relationship rather than a simple continuation.", "SRC_MARKOE_PHOENICIANS", "reviewed", "PER_PHO_IRON_AGE"]], "columns": ["relationship_id", "subject_entity_id", "relationship_type", "object_entity_id", "confidence", "rationale", "source_id", "review_status", "period_id"], "primary_keys": ["relationship_id"], "primary_key_values": ["1506"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7681200004299171, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}