At other times it droops perpendicularly from the cheeks and the under lip.15 Frequently, however, the beard is shaven off, and the whole face is smooth and hairless.
The Chaldaean females, as represented by the Assyrians, are tall and large-limbed.

Their physiognomy is Assyrian, their hair not very abundant.

The Babylonian cylinders, on the other hand, make the hair long and conspicuous, while the forms are quite as spare and meagre as those of the men.
On the whole, it is most probable that the physical type of the later Babylonians was nearly that of their northern neighbors.

A somewhat sparer form, longer and more flowing hair, and features less stern and strong, may perhaps have characterized them.

They were also, it is probable, of a darker complexion than the Assyrians, being to some extent Ethiopians by descent, and inhabiting a region which lies four degrees nearer to the tropics than Assyria.