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'}

2 rows where entity_id = "ENT_MYC_POTNIA"

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Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_MYC_POTNIA,SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION,scholarly attestation Potnia ENT_MYC_POTNIA Walter Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan (Harvard University Press, 1985; original German: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche, 1977) SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION scholarly attestation Burkert (1985) pp. 42-46 on Mycenaean religion; the Potnia goddess and her relationship to Classical goddess figures
ENT_MYC_POTNIA,SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK,direct attestation Potnia ENT_MYC_POTNIA Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973) SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK direct attestation Linear B tablets: KN V 52 (Athana Potnia at Knossos); PY An 1281 (Potnia unqualified at Pylos); multiple offering tablets at Knossos, Pylos, and Mycenae; Ventris & Chadwick (1973) ch. 7 on Mycenaean religion and the Potnia problem

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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]);