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_MES_GILGAMESH"

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ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,scholarly attestation Gilgamesh ENT_MES_GILGAMESH 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. 76-90: Gilgamesh as a structural parallel to Heracles; the two-thirds divine / one-third human hero with a divine companion, monster-slaying labors, and a quest for immortality; Burkert documents the ways Gilgamesh material entered Greek heroic tradition via the Orientalizing period
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,SRC_ETCSL,direct attestation Gilgamesh ENT_MES_GILGAMESH Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL direct attestation ETCSL: five Sumerian Gilgamesh poems (Bilgames and Akka, Bilgames and the Bull of Heaven, etc.)
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation Gilgamesh ENT_MES_GILGAMESH Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2003) SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH direct attestation Andrew George (2003): the definitive edition; all tablets of the Standard Babylonian Epic and Sumerian precursor poems

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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]);