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_MES_GILGAMESH"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,PER_MES_EARLY Gilgamesh ENT_MES_GILGAMESH Early Mesopotamian PER_MES_EARLY medium Gilgamesh appears in the Sumerian king list as a king of Uruk in the Early Dynastic period (c. 2700 BCE); Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date to c. 2100-2000 BCE (Ur III period) SRC_ETCSL reviewed
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,PER_MES_OLD_BAB Gilgamesh ENT_MES_GILGAMESH Old Babylonian 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

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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]);