"Rudolf Simek highlights that Roman senator Tacitus's first century CE work ethnography of the Germanic peoples "Germania" mentions that they maintained hornless cattle (see "name" section above), and notes that the "Germania" describes that an image of the Germanic goddess Nerthus was led through the countryside by way of a cattle-driven wagon.Simek compares the deity to a variety of cow-associated deities among non-Germanic peoples, such as the Egyptian goddess Hathor (depicted as cow-headed) and Isis (whose iconography contains references to cows), and the Ancient Greek Hera (described as 'the cow-eyed').