Entity Sources

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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evidence_type
{'description': 'e.g. Direct attestation, Secondary analysis, Epigraphic, Numismatic'}
source_note
{'description': 'Specific passage citations and notes on how this source attests the entity'}

3 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ARM_ANAHIT"

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ENT_ARM_ANAHIT,SRC_AGATHANGELOS_HISTORY,direct attestation Anahit ENT_ARM_ANAHIT Agathangelos, History of the Armenians (Patmut'iwn Hayots'), 5th c. CE; trans. Robert W. Thomson (State University of New York Press, Albany NY, 1976) SRC_AGATHANGELOS_HISTORY direct attestation §22: "Anahit, who is called Artemis among the Greeks; she is the glory of our nation and vivifier... mother of all chastity, benefactress of the whole human race." Describes cult statue and its destruction by Gregory the Illuminator.
ENT_ARM_ANAHIT,SRC_KHORENATSI_HISTORY,direct attestation Anahit ENT_ARM_ANAHIT Movses Khorenatsi, History of Armenia (Patmut'iwn Hayots'), 5th c. CE; trans. Robert W. Thomson (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1978) SRC_KHORENATSI_HISTORY direct attestation I.14 and II.12: Anahit as daughter of Aramazd; her golden statue at Erez/Ashtishat; the Armenian royal cult; the epithet "Anahit the Golden."
ENT_ARM_ANAHIT,SRC_RUSSELL_ZOR_ARMENIA,scholarly attestation Anahit ENT_ARM_ANAHIT James R. Russell, Zoroastrianism in Armenia (Harvard Iranian Series 5; Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge MA, 1987) SRC_RUSSELL_ZOR_ARMENIA scholarly attestation Russell (1987) pp. 121-250: the most extensive treatment; Anahit as Armenian transformation of Zoroastrian Anahita; the shift from water-purity deity to the broadest functional deity in the Armenian pantheon; Strabo Geography XI.14.16 on the Erez temple and statue.

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CREATE TABLE "entity_sources" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [evidence_type] TEXT,
   [source_note] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [source_id], [evidence_type])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_source_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_entity_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([entity_id]);