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'}

5 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ROM_VULCAN"

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ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Vulcan ENT_ROM_VULCAN 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_VULCAN,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Vulcan ENT_ROM_VULCAN Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 2.67 (Vulcan = fire/forge in Stoic allegory). Documents allegorical Roman theology.
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Vulcan ENT_ROM_VULCAN Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti 3.831 (Quinquatrus): Vulcan as the divine craftsman associated with fire and metallurgy; the Volcanalia (August 23, outside the surviving six books) is the primary Roman fire festival; Vulcan's role as the forge-deity contrasted with his Greek counterpart Hephaestus's lame-craftsman mythology
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Vulcan ENT_ROM_VULCAN Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Vulcan ENT_ROM_VULCAN Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation Vulcan forges the Shield of Aeneas (Aeneid 8.370-625, the ekphrasis of Roman history on the shield). One of the most elaborate descriptions of Vulcan/Hephaestus as divine smith in any ancient text.

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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]);