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_INANNA_ISHTAR"

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ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,scholarly attestation Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR 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_INANNA_ISHTAR,SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,scholarly attestation Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR 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. 97-100: the transmission of the Inanna/Ishtar tradition into the Greek Aphrodite figure via Cypriot and Phoenician mediation; the shared Queen of Heaven / Venus star / love-war combination; the Adonis cult as the Dumuzi/Tammuz reception in Cyprus
ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,SRC_ETCSL,direct attestation Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL direct attestation Named in Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,direct attestation Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 3rd ed. (CDL Press, 2005) SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES direct attestation Descent of Ishtar (Akkadian; Foster pp. 498-505): the Akkadian version of the descent to the underworld; Ishtar stripped of her divine attributes at seven gates; Ishtar Hymns (Foster pp. 570-589): major hymns to Ishtar documenting her character as goddess of love, war, and Venus

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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]);