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'}

7 rows where period_id = "PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC"

✎ View and edit SQL

This data as json, CSV (advanced)

Suggested facets: source_id

Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_MER_AMESEMI,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Amesemi ENT_MER_AMESEMI Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high Attested in the Naga temple relief program (c. 1–20 CE) and other Meroitic royal cult contexts throughout the period. SRC_ZABKAR_APEDEMAK reviewed
ENT_MER_APEDEMAK,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Apedemak ENT_MER_APEDEMAK Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high Apedemak's earliest temple evidence dates to Musawwarat es-Sufra c. 270 BCE; his cult persists through the Naga temple c. 1–20 CE and beyond. Attested across the entire Meroitic period. SRC_ZABKAR_APEDEMAK reviewed
ENT_MER_ARENSNUPHIS,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Arensnuphis ENT_MER_ARENSNUPHIS Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high Attested at Philae in Greek inscriptions from the Ptolemaic period onward through Roman times; Musawwarat attestations push the cult back further. SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE reviewed
ENT_MER_ARITENE,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Aritene ENT_MER_ARITENE Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high Indigenous Meroitic god named on a faience medallion from the royal cemetery of Meroe (read by Priese as a solar deity) and in the Karanog mortuary inscription (REM 0277). SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE reviewed
ENT_MER_MANDULIS,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Mandulis ENT_MER_MANDULIS Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high The Kalabsha temple, rebuilt under Augustus c. 20 BCE, is the principal cult site; the Greek inscription corpus spans c. 100 BCE–300 CE. Present throughout the Meroitic period. SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE reviewed
ENT_MER_MASH,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Mash ENT_MER_MASH Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high Obscure indigenous Meroitic god named alongside Aritene in the Karanog mortuary inscription of Haramadeye; character otherwise unknown. SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE reviewed
ENT_MER_SEBIUMEKER,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC Sebiumeker ENT_MER_SEBIUMEKER Napatan–Meroitic Kingdom of Kush PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC high Present in the Musawwarat es-Sufra relief programs, which were established c. 270 BCE and expanded through the Meroitic period. SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE reviewed

Advanced export

JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited, object

CSV options: 

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]);