The chief wife, or Queen-Consort, was privileged to wear on her head a royal tiara or crown.

She was the acknowledged head of the female apartments or Gynaeceum, and the concubines recognized her dignity by actual prostration.

On great occasions, when the king entertained the male part of the Court, she feasted all the females in her own part of the palace.

She had a large revenue of her own, assigned her, not so much by the will of her husband, as by an established law or custom.

Her dress was splendid, and she was able to indulge freely that love of ornament of which few Oriental women are devoid.