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'}

4 rows where entity_id = "ENT_CEL_ESUS"

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ENT_CEL_ESUS,SRC_DELAMARRE_GAULISH,direct attestation Esus ENT_CEL_ESUS Delamarre, Xavier. Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003; 2nd ed.) SRC_DELAMARRE_GAULISH direct attestation Delamarre (2003) pp. 168-169: Esus attested on the Paris altar (Nautes Parisiens pillar) and the Trier altar; name etymology uncertain (*esus = "lord"?).
ENT_CEL_ESUS,SRC_DUVAL_DIEUX_GAULE,scholarly attestation Esus ENT_CEL_ESUS Duval, Paul-Marie. Les dieux de la Gaule (Presses Universitaires de France, 1957; rev. ed. Payot, 1976) SRC_DUVAL_DIEUX_GAULE scholarly attestation Duval (1976) pp. 35-38: Esus iconography (woodcutter with bull and cranes) and the Lucan triads.
ENT_CEL_ESUS,SRC_GREEN_CELTIC_GODS,scholarly attestation Esus ENT_CEL_ESUS Miranda Green, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend SRC_GREEN_CELTIC_GODS scholarly attestation Attested in Miranda Green, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend.
ENT_CEL_ESUS,SRC_LUCAN_BELLUM_CIVILE,direct attestation Esus ENT_CEL_ESUS Lucan, Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) (c. 60–65 CE) SRC_LUCAN_BELLUM_CIVILE direct attestation Lucan Bellum Civile 1.444-446: names Esus alongside Teutates and Taranis as the three principal Gaulish gods requiring human sacrifice; scholia identify Esus with Mercury or Mars.

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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]);