citation_id,entity_id,source_id,work_title,locus,quote,translator,translation_year,source_url,evidence_grade,evidence_note,verified_on,verify_method,display_order,needs_review,review_reason,original_text_url
CIT_EGY_ISIS_HDT,ENT_EGY_ISIS,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,"Herodotus, Histories",Book 2.41,"The clean males then of the ox kind, both full-grown animals and calves, are sacrificed by all the Egyptians; the females however they may not sacrifice, but these are sacred to Isis; for the figure of Isis is in the form of a woman with cow's horns, just as the Hellenes present Io in pictures, and all the Egyptians without distinction reverence cows far more than any other kind of cattle; for which reason neither man nor woman of Egyptian race would kiss",G. C. Macaulay,1890,https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707,primary-verbatim,"Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source).",2026-06-17,deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456),1,0,,