It is difficult to see the object of this appendage, which must have formed no inconsiderable addition to the weight of the quiver.

[PLATE XXIII., Fig.
3.] Babylonian daggers were short, and shaped like the Assyrian; but their handles were less elegant and less elaborately ornamented.

They were worn in the girdle (as they are at the present day in all eastern countries) either in pairs or singly.

[PLATE XXIII., Fig.

3.] Other weapons of the Babylonians, which we may be sure they used in war, though the monuments do not furnish any proof of the fact, were the spear and the bill or axe.