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'}

3 rows where entity_id = "ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS"

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ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS,SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN,scholarly attestation Zalmoxis ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS Zosia H. Archibald, The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998) SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN scholarly attestation Archibald (1998) pp. 299-301: Zalmoxis in the context of Getae religion; the problem of Gebeleizis; comparison with Orphic and Pythagorean mystery traditions; shaman-king interpretations.
ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS,SRC_ELIADE_ER,scholarly attestation Zalmoxis ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition (ed. Lindsay Jones) SRC_ELIADE_ER scholarly attestation Encyclopedia of Religion, "Zalmoxis" entry: the shaman-king interpretation (Eliade 1970); comparison with Orpheus; Zalmoxis as paradigmatic mystery-initiation figure of Eastern Europe.
ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,direct attestation Zalmoxis ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES direct attestation Herodotus 4.94-96: the longest ancient account of Zalmoxis — the Getae belief in immortality, the four-year messenger ritual, and the Greek rationalist alternative of Zalmoxis as former slave of Pythagoras. Primary and most detailed attestation; Herodotus himself is sceptical of the Greek version.

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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]);