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'}

10 rows where period_id = "PER_THRA_IRON_AGE"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_BENDIS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Bendis ENT_BENDIS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Official Athenian state cult by 429 BCE decree; Plato Republic 327a (c. 375 BCE) opens at the Bendideia. Thracian Iron Age origin; Athenian Classical-period reception. SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC reviewed
ENT_COTYS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Cotys ENT_COTYS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Cotytia attested in Attic comedy of the late 5th c. BCE (Eupolis fr. 85) and Aeschylus Edoni (possibly 470s BCE). Spread to Corinth and Macedon by the 4th c. BCE. SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN reviewed
ENT_DAC_DERZELAS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Derzelas ENT_DAC_DERZELAS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Odessos coin evidence from 3rd–2nd c. BCE; this falls within the Thracian Iron Age period which covers the Dacian context. SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES reviewed
ENT_SABAZIOS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Sabazios attested in Athens from the 5th c. BCE (Aristophanes Wasps 422 BCE; Demosthenes 330 BCE); Thracian Iron Age origin; cult persisted through the Roman Imperial period as Zeus Sabazios. SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN reviewed
ENT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Gebeleizis ENT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Herodotus 4.94 (c. 430 BCE): sole attestation, in the context of Getae religion alongside the Zalmoxis tradition. SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES reviewed
ENT_THRA_HEROS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Thracian Horseman (Heros) ENT_THRA_HEROS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high The most widespread Thracian divine figure, attested by hundreds of votive and funerary rider-reliefs across Thrace and Moesia, associated with hunting, healing and heroic/chthonic protection. SRC_HODDINOTT_THRACIANS reviewed
ENT_THRA_KANDAON,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Kandaon ENT_THRA_KANDAON Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high A Thracian/Macedonian war-god identified with Ares in late Greek sources (Lycophron's Alexandra and scholia); attestation literary rather than epigraphic. SRC_HODDINOTT_THRACIANS reviewed
ENT_THRA_PLEISTOROS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Pleistoros ENT_THRA_PLEISTOROS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high War-god of the Thracian Apsinthii recorded by Herodotus (9.119), to whom they sacrificed the Persian Oeobazus. SRC_HODDINOTT_THRACIANS reviewed
ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Zalmoxis ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Herodotus 4.94-96 (c. 430 BCE) is the primary attestation; Plato Charmides 156d (c. 380 BCE) a secondary one. Reflects Getae Iron Age religious practice of northern Thrace and the lower Danube. SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES reviewed
ENT_THRA_ZIBELTHIURDOS,PER_THRA_IRON_AGE Zibelthiurdos ENT_THRA_ZIBELTHIURDOS Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE high Thracian storm/sky god attested in Greek and Latin inscriptions of the Roman period, equated with Zeus/Jupiter as a thunder deity. SRC_HODDINOTT_THRACIANS 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]);