Under it was worn a tunic, or shirt, which reached from the neck to the knee, and had tight-fitting sleeves that covered the arm to the wrist.

The tunic was purple in color, like the _candys_, or robe, but striped or mixed with white.

The lower limbs were encased in trousers of a crimson hue.

On his feet the the king wore shoes like those of the Medes, long and taper at the toe buttoned in front, and reaching very high up the instep: their color was deep yellow or saffron.

[PLATE XXXII., Fig.1.] [Illustration: PLATE XXXII.] Thus far the monarch's costume, though richer in material than the dress of the Persian nobles, and in some points different in color, was on the whole remarkably like that of the upper class of his subjects.