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'}

3 rows where entity_id = "ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,PER_MES_EARLY Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR Early Mesopotamian PER_MES_EARLY high Inanna is attested in the Fara god-lists and in proto-cuneiform from Uruk; the cuneiform sign for Inanna (the gate-post or reed bundle) is among the oldest written symbols; she is the primary deity of Uruk, the first city SRC_ETCSL reviewed
ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,PER_MES_NEO_ASS Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian PER_MES_NEO_ASS medium Mesopotamian entities primarily attested in Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian canonical cuneiform library.    
ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,PER_MES_UR_III Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR Ur III / Sumerian Renaissance PER_MES_UR_III high The major Inanna hymn corpus (Hymns to Inanna by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon; the Descent of Inanna) is preserved in Ur III manuscripts; Enheduanna's hymns (c. 2285-2250 BCE) are the oldest attributed literary compositions in history SRC_ETCSL 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]);