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_HERYSHAF"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_EGY_HERYSHAF,PER_EGY_FIRST_INTERMEDIATE Heryshaf ENT_EGY_HERYSHAF First Intermediate Period PER_EGY_FIRST_INTERMEDIATE high Heryshaf becomes politically significant when Herakleopolis becomes the royal capital of the 9th and 10th Dynasties (First Intermediate Period, c. 2160-2055 BCE); the Herakleopolitan kings held him as their dynastic deity; his cult and theology are actively promoted during this period of Herakleopolitan supremacy SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_HERYSHAF,PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM Heryshaf ENT_EGY_HERYSHAF Old Kingdom PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM high Heryshaf ("He who is upon his lake") is the principal deity of Herakleopolis Magna (ancient Henen-nesut / Ihnasya el-Medina); attested from Old Kingdom inscriptions; he is a ram-headed creator and fertility deity associated with the primordial lake; Old Kingdom temples at Herakleopolis document his early cult SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS 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]);