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'}

7 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ROM_VESTA"

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ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price, Religions of Rome SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS scholarly attestation Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome.
ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 2.67 (Vesta = fire of the hearth; Stoic element allegory). Key for Roman hearth-fire theology.
ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–10, 21–45; c. 27 BCE – 9 CE) SRC_LIVY_AUC direct attestation AUC 1.20.3 (Numa institutes the Vestal Virgins and the eternal fire of Vesta); primary prose source for the Vestal institution. AUC 5.40.7 (Vestals carry sacred objects during the Gallic sack).
ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti 6.249-460: the Vestalia (June 7-15); the most important surviving ancient account of the Vesta cult; the Penates, the sacred flame, the ritual prohibition on donkeys during the festival; Ovid connects Vesta to the earth and to the primordial fire
ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ direct attestation Varro's identification of Vesta with the earth (terra); City of God 7.16; differs from the more common fire identification and is Varro's distinctive contribution.
ENT_ROM_VESTA,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation Vesta appears in Aeneid 2.296-297 (Aeneas rescues her sacred fire from Troy); 2.567-569; 5.744. The Aeneid grounds the Trojan origin of the Roman Vestal fire.

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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]);