Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

2 rows where entity_id = "ENT_EGY_ASH"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_EGY_ASH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Ash ENT_EGY_ASH Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Ash is attested from Dynasty 1 wine-jar labels from Abydos where his name appears in association with Libyan oasis regions; he is one of the oldest attested Egyptian deities associated with the Western Desert and Libya; Wilkinson (2003) p. 193: Ash "is attested from the very beginning of Egyptian history" SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_ASH,PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM Ash ENT_EGY_ASH Old Kingdom PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM high Ash appears in the Pyramid Texts as a protective deity of the Western Desert regions; his role as a seth-animal deity who guards the western lands connects him to the cosmic geography of the Old Kingdom funerary tradition SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS reviewed

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);