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%.

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

1 row where entity_id = "ENT_LEV_BAAL_ZEBUB"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_LEV_BAAL_ZEBUB,PER_ISR_IRON_AGE Baal-Zebub of Ekron ENT_LEV_BAAL_ZEBUB Iron Age Israelite PER_ISR_IRON_AGE high Philistine city-god of Ekron consulted as a healing oracle by King Ahaziah (2 Kings 1). Name = 'Lord of the Flies', almost certainly a Hebrew polemical distortion of an original Baal epithet ('zbl/Zebul' = 'Prince', as at Ugarit). The ORIGINAL deity behind the later Christian demon Beelzebub. Homonym note: distinct from the demon Beelzebul (ENT_CHR_BEELZEBUL), which is his reception. SRC_DDD_BIBLE 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]);