entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_CAN_DAGON,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Dagan attested at Ebla (c. 2400 BCE) and Mari (c. 1800 BCE) as a major West Semitic deity; predates Ugaritic attestation,SRC_DDD_BIBLE,reviewed
ENT_MES_ADAPA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_ANSHAR,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_ANZU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Old Babylonian Anzu myth (c. 1700 BCE) is the earliest full version; iconographic attestation goes back to the Early Dynastic period,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_APSU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Apsu as a named mythological entity alongside Tiamat appears in the Old Babylonian tradition leading to the Enuma Elish; the concept of the Abzu (subterranean fresh water) is older but the Apsu-as-named-deity-alongside-Tiamat is Old Babylonian,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,reviewed
ENT_MES_ASHUR,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Ashur (the Assyrian state deity) is attested from the Old Assyrian period (contemporaneous with Old Babylonian); his national cult at Assur develops in parallel with Marduk's at Babylon,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,reviewed
ENT_MES_AYA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_BASHMU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_BELET_ILI,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_BELET_SERI,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_DAMKINA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_ENKIDU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Enkidu appears in Old Babylonian Gilgamesh texts (c. 1700 BCE) and in Sumerian precursor poems,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,reviewed
ENT_MES_ETANA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,"Old Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 1700 BCE) is the most developed early version; the Standard Babylonian version (Sin-leqi-unninni, c. 1200 BCE) is the canonical form",SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,reviewed
ENT_MES_GIRTABLULLU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_GUGALANNA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_HUMBABA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_KINGU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,"Kingu appears as Tiamat's champion in the Enuma Elish tradition, which reaches its canonical form in the Old Babylonian period; his blood is used to create humanity after Marduk's victory",SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,reviewed
ENT_MES_KISHAR,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_KUSARIKKU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_LAHMU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_LAMASHTU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Lamashtu as a named demoness threatening mothers and infants is attested in Old Babylonian incantation texts; the detailed iconography and ritual against her is Old Babylonian,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_MARDUK,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Marduk's rise as the chief deity of the Babylonian pantheon begins in the Old Babylonian period with the rise of the First Babylonian Dynasty; the Enuma Elish narrative of his victory over Tiamat is an Old Babylonian theological development,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,reviewed
ENT_MES_MUMMU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_MUSHHUSHSHU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_NABU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Nabu (son of Marduk; deity of writing and scribal arts) becomes prominent in the Old Babylonian period alongside Marduk's rise; his city Borsippa is attested as a major cult center from the Old Babylonian period,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINGAL,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Ningal's role continues in Old Babylonian liturgy; Nanna/Sin hymns of the Old Babylonian period consistently name Ningal as his consort and mother of Inanna and Utu,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINSUN,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Ninsun attested in Old Babylonian versions of the Gilgamesh Epic (c. 1800-1600 BCE); cult at Ur documented in the Ur III period,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,reviewed
ENT_MES_PAZUZU,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Pazuzu (the demon who opposes Lamashtu) is attested in Old Babylonian incantation texts and amulets; his use as a protective counter-demon against Lamashtu is established in the Old Babylonian period,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_SARPANIT,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,A,"Attested in Old Babylonian literature (Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, the Gilgamesh tradition).",,reviewed
ENT_MES_TIAMAT,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,"Tiamat as a named mythological figure is primarily an Old Babylonian and later concept, reaching canonical form in the Enuma Elish (Standard Babylonian period); she may have antecedents in earlier primordial-sea traditions but the named entity is Old Babylonian",SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,reviewed
ENT_MES_UTNAPISHTIM,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,Utnapishtim/Atrahasis flood narrative attested in the Atrahasis Epic (c. 1700 BCE) and the Old Babylonian Gilgamesh texts; Ziusudra version in Sumerian is slightly older,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,reviewed
ENT_RLMX_GANZIR,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,"Ganzir, the gate / threshold (the 'face') of the netherworld Irkalla/Kur, sometimes used as a name for the underworld's entrance through which the dead pass the seven gates. Attested in the Descent of Inanna/Ishtar tradition.",SRC_DESCENT_ISHTAR,reviewed
ENT_RLMX_IRKALLA,PER_MES_OLD_BAB,high,"Irkalla (Sumerian Kur, the 'land of no return'), the Mesopotamian underworld ruled by Ereshkigal (and Nergal), a dark dust-filled realm where the dead eat clay. Attested in the Descent of Ishtar and the Descent of Inanna. NOTE: distinct from the being Apsu (ENT_MES_APSU); this is the place.",SRC_DESCENT_ISHTAR,reviewed