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_VAHAGN"

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ENT_ARM_VAHAGN,SRC_AGATHANGELOS_HISTORY,direct attestation Vahagn ENT_ARM_VAHAGN 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: "Vahagn, who is called Heracles among the Greeks" — explicitly equates Vahagn with Heracles at the Ashtishat temple; notes his role as destroyer of monsters.
ENT_ARM_VAHAGN,SRC_KHORENATSI_HISTORY,direct attestation Vahagn ENT_ARM_VAHAGN 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.31: the Vahagn birth hymn, the oldest surviving Armenian poem — preserving archaic oral material about his birth from the primal elements (sea, fire, sky). II.12: his temple at Ashtishat alongside Aramazd and Anahit.
ENT_ARM_VAHAGN,SRC_RUSSELL_ZOR_ARMENIA,scholarly attestation Vahagn ENT_ARM_VAHAGN 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. 443-500: Vahagn as Armenian reception of Zoroastrian Verethragna (god of victory, dragon-slayer) via Parthian Wahrāgn; the fire imagery of the birth hymn; the Heracles equation in the Hellenistic period.

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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]);