citation_id,entity_id,source_id,work_title,locus,quote,translator,translation_year,source_url,evidence_grade,evidence_note,verified_on,verify_method,display_order,needs_review,review_reason,original_text_url CIT_MANICH_ADAMAS_MANICH,ENT_MANICH_ADAMAS,SRC_MANICHAEAN_HOMILIES,The Sermon of the Great War (Manichaean Homilies),"Homilies 40-41 (Sermon of the Great War; Gardner & Lieu, Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire, no. 71, p. 226)","They will make a sign . . . all of you arise! The Adamas . . . who watches over his brethren, will proceed to the heights.",Iain Gardner,2004,None,primary-verbatim,"Ellipses are lacunae in the Coptic codex as printed by the translator. The Adamas here — ascending with the Keeper of Splendour, King of Honour, King of Glory and the Porter at the end of the world — is the Adamas of Light, one of the five sons of the Living Spirit. No public-domain English translation of the Coptic Manichaica exists; quoted from the owner's copy of Gardner & Lieu 2004.",2026-07-02,"re-source v2.1.59: verbatim substring gate (whitespace-normalized) against pdftotext of the owner's Gardner & Lieu 2004 PDF (Google Drive ""Texts""), 2026-07-01",1,0,,