The chief garment was a long gown or robe, extending from the neck to the feet, commonly either striped or flounced, or both; and sometimes also adorned with fringe.

This robe, which was scanty according to modern notions, appears not to have been fastened by any girdle or cincture round the waist, but to have been kept in place by passing over one shoulder, a slit or hole being made for the arm on one side of the dress only.

In some cases the upper part of the dress seems to have been detached from the lower, and to have formed a sort of jacket, which reached about to the hips.
[Illustration: PLATE 19] The beard was commonly worn straight and long, not in crisp curls, as by the Assyrians.

[PLATE XIX., Fig.

2.] The hair was also worn long, either gathered together into a club behind the head, or depending in long spiral curls on either side the face and down the back.