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"It is not permitted to enter the temple of the Lady Goddess with any object of gold on one's person, unless it is intended for an offering; or to wear purple or bright colored or black garments, or shoes, or a finger ring. But if one enters wearing any forbidden object, it must be dedicated to the temple. Women are not to have their hair bound up, and men must enter with bared heads. No flowers are to be brought in at the mysteries; no pregnant women or nursing mothers are to have any part. If anyone wishes to make an offering, let it be of olive, myrtle, honey, grains of barley clean from weeds, a picture, a white poppy, lamps incense, myrrh, spice. But if anyone wishes to offer the Lady Goddess sacrificial animals, they must be female and white . . . "

Dittenberger, Sylloge, 939.