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_PLATO_REPUBLIC"

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Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_BENDIS,SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC,direct attestation Bendis ENT_BENDIS Plato, Republic (c. 375 BCE) SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC direct attestation Republic 327a: Plato opens the dialogue at the Piraeus Bendideia festival, explicitly naming Bendis as "the goddess." Confirms the official Athenian state festival and its recent establishment. The most widely cited literary attestation of the Bendis cult.
ENT_LETHE,SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC,direct attestation Lethe ENT_LETHE Plato, Republic (c. 375 BCE) SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC direct attestation Plato, Republic 10.621a-c: the river/plain of Lethe in the Myth of Er; cf. Virgil Aeneid 6.705.

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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]);