entity_sources: ENT_ROM_PENATES, SRC_OVID_FASTI, direct attestation

2,936 links between entities and the sources that attest them, with evidence type and passage-level notes. The primary evidence layer: every entity classification traces to at least one record here.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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entity_id	source_id	evidence_type	source_note
ENT_ROM_PENATES	SRC_OVID_FASTI	direct attestation	Fasti 6.454: Vesta and the Penates are explicitly linked; Ovid treats the Penates as the guardian deities of the Roman state's inner sanctuary (the Atrium Vestae) as well as household gods brought from Troy by Aeneas; primary literary source for their cult