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          "status": "verified-report",
          "text": "Herodotus reports—not an independent Egyptian record—that Necho commissioned Phoenician crews to sail from the Red Sea and return through the Pillars of Heracles."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "ancient-report",
          "confidence": "high-textual/low-independent-corroboration",
          "epistemic_label": "reported",
          "evidence": [
            {
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              "relation": "reports"
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          "id": "necho.three-year-return",
          "status": "verified-report",
          "text": "In Herodotus's account, the crews planted crops during seasonal stops and returned to Egypt in the third year. This projection establishes what the text reports, not independent corroboration of the voyage."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "ancient-report-with-host-doubt",
          "confidence": "high-textual/low-interpretive",
          "epistemic_label": "disputed",
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              "passage_id": "PASS-NECHO-HDT-4.42",
              "relation": "reports"
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          "status": "contested",
          "text": "Herodotus preserves the striking claim that the sun was on the sailors' right, while explicitly withholding his own belief; a modern Southern-Hemisphere interpretation remains an inference, not part of the ancient wording."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "ancient-report",
          "confidence": "high-textual/medium-historical",
          "epistemic_label": "reported",
          "evidence": [
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              "passage_id": "PASS-NECHO-HDT-2.158-159",
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          "id": "necho.canal-and-fleets",
          "status": "verified-report",
          "text": "A separate Herodotean passage associates Necho with an unfinished Nile–Red Sea canal and fleets in both maritime basins."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "source-critical-synthesis",
          "confidence": "high",
          "epistemic_label": "inferred",
          "evidence": [
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            {
              "passage_id": "PASS-NECHO-HDT-4.42",
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          "id": "necho.canal-not-voyage-corroboration",
          "status": "supported-synthesis",
          "text": "Diodorus and Strabo strengthen the canal tradition, not the voyage tradition; citing them as independent confirmation of the circumnavigation would be a category error."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "historical-assessment",
          "confidence": "medium",
          "epistemic_label": "disputed",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "passage_id": "PASS-NECHO-HDT-4.42",
              "relation": "supports"
            }
          ],
          "id": "necho.historicity",
          "status": "contested",
          "text": "Herodotus reports a completed circumnavigation. Its historicity remains disputed; this finite source comparison does not establish contemporary corroboration."
        }
      ],
      "id": "case-necho",
      "itinerary_id": "10",
      "limitations": [
        "A surviving report is not proof of an event.",
        "The canal accounts do not independently establish the circumnavigation.",
        "The solar observation has an ancient expression of doubt and a separate modern interpretation.",
        "No new date or route coordinates are asserted by this projection."
      ],
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      "reader_url": "../reader.html#passages/e=10/p=Hdt.4.42",
      "title": "Necho II — reported circumnavigation"
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      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_class": "ancient-report",
          "confidence": "text-bound; historical and geographical acceptance pending",
          "epistemic_label": "reported",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "passage_id": "PILOT-SCYLAX-HDT-4.44",
              "relation": "reports"
            }
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          "id": "scylax.commission",
          "status": "provisional-source-note",
          "text": "Herodotus reports that Darius sent trusted men, including Scylax of Caryanda, to discover where the Indus reached the sea."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "ancient-report",
          "confidence": "text-bound; historical and geographical acceptance pending",
          "epistemic_label": "reported",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "passage_id": "PILOT-SCYLAX-HDT-4.44",
              "relation": "reports"
            }
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          "id": "scylax.named-departure",
          "status": "provisional-source-note",
          "text": "The account names Caspatyrus and Pactyice as the departure region, then describes a river journey to the sea. This note makes no modern identification of the departure point."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "ancient-report",
          "confidence": "text-bound; historical and geographical acceptance pending",
          "epistemic_label": "reported",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "passage_id": "PILOT-SCYLAX-HDT-4.44",
              "relation": "reports"
            }
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          "id": "scylax.duration",
          "status": "provisional-source-note",
          "text": "Herodotus says that, after sailing westward by sea, the party arrived in the thirtieth month at the place from which the Egyptian king had sent Phoenicians to circumnavigate Libya."
        },
        {
          "claim_class": "source-critical-synthesis",
          "confidence": "text-bound; historical and geographical acceptance pending",
          "epistemic_label": "inferred",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "passage_id": "PILOT-SCYLAX-HDT-4.44",
              "relation": "qualifies"
            }
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          "id": "scylax.route-limit",
          "status": "provisional-source-note",
          "text": "The short account does not supply a modern coordinate sequence or an exact calendar year. A reconstructed route or date must be distinguished from Herodotus's wording."
        }
      ],
      "id": "case-scylax",
      "itinerary_id": "15",
      "limitations": [
        "This single-source note does not complete an evidence package or establish independent corroboration.",
        "A full package requires source collation, identity/chronology/route review, and adversarial/provenance reviews.",
        "The later work commonly called the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax is not equated with the voyage report here."
      ],
      "projection_status": "provisional source note; cumulative evidence package still pending",
      "reader_url": "../reader.html#passages/e=15/p=Hdt.4.44",
      "title": "Scylax of Caryanda — provisional source note"
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    },
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      "citation": "Diodorus 1.33.9",
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      "reader_url": "../reader.html#passages/p=Diod.1.33.9",
      "source_id": "SRC-DIOD-GRC"
    },
    {
      "citation": "Strabo 17.1.25",
      "id": "PASS-NECHO-STR-17.1.25",
      "reader_key": "Str.17.1.25",
      "reader_url": "../reader.html#passages/p=Str.17.1.25",
      "source_id": "SRC-STR-GRC"
    },
    {
      "citation": "Herodotus 4.44",
      "id": "PILOT-SCYLAX-HDT-4.44",
      "reader_key": "Hdt.4.44",
      "reader_url": "../reader.html#passages/p=Hdt.4.44",
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  "review": "AI-assisted editorial and technical checks; independent human scholarly review pending.",
  "rights": "Bibliographic attribution and original summaries only. Source components retain their own rights; archival licensing of the original notes remains to be confirmed.",
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "scope": "Finite reader pilot: six source-bound Necho claims and four provisional Scylax notes; no new geometry or third-party text reproduction.",
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