entity_sources: ENT_SYN_SERAPIS, SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS, 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.

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entity_id	source_id	evidence_type	source_note
ENT_SYN_SERAPIS	SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS	direct attestation	De Iside 28 is the primary ancient text for the creation of Serapis: Ptolemy I Soter is told in a dream to bring a statue from Sinope; the theologians Timotheus and Manetho identify the new deity as a synthesis of Osiris and Apis; Plutarch is the most detailed ancient source for the Serapis foundation myth