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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{'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_SABAZIOS"

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ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN,scholarly attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Zosia H. Archibald, The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998) SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN scholarly attestation Archibald (1998) ch. 8: Sabazios as Thracian sky-thunder deity; his reception into Athenian religion in the 5th c. BCE; cult spread through Greece and Rome; the manus Sabaziana iconography.
ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION,scholarly attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS 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. 179-181: Sabazios in the context of Greek mystery religion; Aristophanes and Demosthenes attestations; the Athenian cult and Roman-period Zeus Sabazios.
ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,direct attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES direct attestation Herodotus 5.7: the three Thracian gods described as Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis. Scholarship identifies the Dionysian/ecstatic figure in this triad with Sabazios. Not named directly, but key for Thracian divine typology.
ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_ROLLER_CYBELE,scholarly attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Roller, Lynn E. In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999) SRC_ROLLER_CYBELE scholarly attestation Roller (1999) pp. 170-175: Sabazios as a Phrygian/Thracian deity; his relationship to the Phrygian religious complex and the Anatolian divine matrix.
ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_THEOI_AGRICULTURE,index attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Theoi Agrarian and Mystery Gods index SRC_THEOI_AGRICULTURE index attestation Attested in Theoi Agrarian and Mystery Gods index.
ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_SABAZIOS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Sabazios ENT_SABAZIOS Theoi Project main index SRC_THEOI_HOME index attestation Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature).

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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]);