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 source_id = "SRC_MESHA_STELE"

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Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_MOA_ASHTAR_KEMOSH,SRC_MESHA_STELE,inscriptional attestation Ashtar-Kemosh ENT_MOA_ASHTAR_KEMOSH The Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone), c. 840 BCE; ed. John A. Dearman, Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab (Scholars Press / ASOR, Atlanta, 1989) SRC_MESHA_STELE inscriptional attestation KAI 181 line 17: sole attestation of the compound name Ashtar-Kemosh in the ḥērem dedication formula for the city of Nebo. The only ancient source naming this entity.
ENT_MOA_KEMOSH,SRC_MESHA_STELE,inscriptional attestation Kemosh ENT_MOA_KEMOSH The Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone), c. 840 BCE; ed. John A. Dearman, Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab (Scholars Press / ASOR, Atlanta, 1989) SRC_MESHA_STELE inscriptional attestation Mesha Stele (KAI 181) names Kemosh nine times as the supreme deity of Moab. Lines 3-4: "Kemosh was angry with his land." Line 9: "And Kemosh returned [the land] in my days." Line 14: "And Kemosh said to me: Go, take Nebo against Israel." Line 17: "And I devoted it to destruction (ḥrm) for Ashtar-Kemosh." Primary and most detailed epigraphic source.

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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]);