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_MES_ENKI_EA"

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ENT_MES_ENKI_EA,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,scholarly attestation Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO scholarly attestation Attested in Black and Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia.
ENT_MES_ENKI_EA,SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,scholarly attestation Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992) SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV scholarly attestation Burkert (1992) pp. 84-87: the Enki/Ea-as-divine-benefactor pattern and its structural parallel with Prometheus; both defy divine authority to preserve humanity; Burkert notes the comparison while acknowledging no direct transmission is documented
ENT_MES_ENKI_EA,SRC_ETCSL,direct attestation Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL direct attestation Named in Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
ENT_MES_ENKI_EA,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,direct attestation Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 3rd ed. (CDL Press, 2005) SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES direct attestation Atrahasis Epic (Foster pp. 160-201): Ea/Enki warns Atrahasis about the flood against the decision of the divine assembly; Enuma Elish (Foster pp. 436-486): Ea kills Apsu and establishes himself in the Abzu; the Adapa myth (Foster pp. 528-535): Ea counsels Adapa; primary Akkadian attestations for Ea as the clever intermediary deity

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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]);