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_NERGAL"

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ENT_MES_NERGAL,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,scholarly attestation Nergal ENT_MES_NERGAL 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_NERGAL,SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES,direct attestation Nergal ENT_MES_NERGAL Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 3rd ed. (CDL Press, 2005) SRC_FOSTER_BEFORE_MUSES direct attestation Nergal and Ereshkigal (Foster pp. 506-524): the most important Akkadian text for Nergal; he descends to the underworld, has his head seized by Ereshkigal's throne-attendant Namtar, eventually seizes Ereshkigal herself, and becomes her consort as king of the underworld; Erra and Ishum (Foster pp. 900-934) is the other major Nergal/Erra text
ENT_MES_NERGAL,SRC_ORACC,direct attestation Nergal ENT_MES_NERGAL Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus SRC_ORACC direct attestation Named in Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Akkadian texts).

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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]);