2.] It was carried in a sheath, and was worn suspended from the girdle on the right side.

From the Persepolitan sculptures it would seem not to have hung freely, but to have been attached to the right thigh by a thong which passed round the knee.

The handle was short, and generally unprotected by a guard; but, in some specimens, we see a simple cross-bar between the hilt and the blade.
The spear carried by the Persian foot-man was also short, or, at any rate, much shorter than the Greek.

To judge by the representations of guardsmen on the Persepolitan sculptures, it was from six to six and a half or seven feet in length.

The Grecian spear was sometimes as much as twenty-one feet.