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.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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_SCYTH_TABITI"

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Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_SCYTH_TABITI,SRC_CUNLIFFE_SCYTHIANS,scholarly attestation Tabiti ENT_SCYTH_TABITI Cunliffe, Barry. The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe (Oxford University Press, 2019) SRC_CUNLIFFE_SCYTHIANS scholarly attestation Cunliffe (2019) p. 203: analysis of Tabiti's primacy in the Scythian pantheon; Iranian etymology and fire-cult parallels.
ENT_SCYTH_TABITI,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,direct attestation Tabiti ENT_SCYTH_TABITI Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES direct attestation Herodotus Histories 4.59.2: "Hestia they call Tabiti; the Scythians worship Hestia above all gods." Primary and only ancient source naming Tabiti.

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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]);