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'}

8 rows where period_id = "PER_EGY_COPTIC"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_COP_BESA,PER_EGY_COPTIC Besa of Atripe ENT_COP_BESA Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Disciple and successor of Shenoute as head of the White Monastery; author of the Life of Shenoute and of monastic letters, attested by that surviving corpus. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_FATHERS,PER_EGY_COPTIC Coptic Fathers and Saints ENT_COP_FATHERS Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Hub collective for the venerated abbots, patriarchs, and martyrs of the Egyptian (Coptic) Church; a grouping node, not a cultic figure. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_MACARIUS,PER_EGY_COPTIC Macarius of Egypt ENT_COP_MACARIUS Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Founder of the monastic settlement of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun) in the Nitrian desert (d. c.391); attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the Lausiac History. Distinct from Macaria (ENT_MACARIA, a Greek goddess - homonym verified in DB) and Macarius of Alexandria. Verified absent from DB. Venerated human. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_MENA_MARTYR,PER_EGY_COPTIC Mena the Wonderworker (Abu Mina) ENT_COP_MENA_MARTYR Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Egyptian (Coptic) reception of the soldier-martyr Menas, centre of the great healing-pilgrimage shrine of Abu Mina west of Alexandria. Cross-links to the existing pan-Orthodox Menas (ENT_ORTH_MENAS, verified in DB) as the same figure venerated in the Coptic tradition; flagged as a homonym/overlap in review. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_MOSES_BLACK,PER_EGY_COPTIC Moses the Black ENT_COP_MOSES_BLACK Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Former brigand turned ascetic of Scetis under Macarius (d. c.405), martyred by raiding Berbers; attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum. Venerated human. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_PACHOMIUS,PER_EGY_COPTIC Pachomius the Great ENT_COP_PACHOMIUS Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Founder of cenobitic (communal) monasticism at Tabennesi (d. 348); attested by the Coptic and Greek Lives of Pachomius and his surviving Rule. Verified absent from DB. Venerated human. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_SAMUEL_CONFESSOR,PER_EGY_COPTIC Samuel the Confessor ENT_COP_SAMUEL_CONFESSOR Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Seventh-century Coptic abbot of the Monastery of al-Qalamun (the Monastery of St Samuel) in the Fayyum, confessor under Chalcedonian and early Muslim-era pressure; attested by his Coptic Life. Distinct from the prophet Samuel (ENT_ISR_SAMUEL, verified in DB) - homonym noted. Venerated human. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY reviewed
ENT_COP_SHENOUTE,PER_EGY_COPTIC Shenoute the Great ENT_COP_SHENOUTE Coptic Egypt PER_EGY_COPTIC high Archimandrite of the White Monastery near Sohag (d. c.465); the towering author of classical Sahidic Coptic literature, attested by his vast surviving corpus of sermons and letters and by Besa's Life of Shenoute. Venerated human, not deified. SRC_DAVIS_EARLY_COPTIC_PAPACY 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]);