Versus
Not who was the better general — the atlas cannot settle that and does not try. This compares how well the record knows two men, and through whose hands it reached us. Where a field is empty it says so, and says which kind of empty it is.
Hannibal Barca
247 BC — 183 BC
Sources2 substantive · best tier 2
Namedonly as the victor spelled it
Written bynot attested
Survives innot attested
First named150 BC · 52 years after
Manoeuvredouble envelopment
Afterwardsnot attested
Blamedno claim on record
Porus
? — 317 BC
Sources6 substantive · best tier 2
Namedonly as the victor spelled it
Written byvictor · for victor
Survives inGreek · narrative
First named30 BC · 296 years after
Manoeuvreno primitive recorded
Afterwardsnot attested
Blamedno claim on record
Reading the blanks
- not attested
- The record was examined and does not carry it. This one is a finding about the past.
- not assessed
- Nobody has yet worked through how this man is attested. 178 of 253 are in this state — a fact about the atlas, not about him.
- not connected
- He is in the register but joined to no battle, so nothing can be counted for him. 93 of 253. Also a fact about the atlas.
160 of 253 commanders currently fill a card. Counted from the register, not asserted — these figures move when the entries do.