n which they are clothed to those of the Chaldaean
garments, and the identity of the patterns on them with the
geometrical decoration of painted cones on the palace at
Uruk, have been pointed out with justice by H. G. Tomkins

*** The high tiara is represented among others on the head
of Mardukna-dinakhe, King of Babylon: cf. what is said of
the conical mitre, the headdress of Sin, on pp. 14, 169 of
this volume.

[Illustration: 262.jpg FEMALE SERVANT BARE TO THE WAIST.(left)]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the bronze figure in the
Louvre, published by Heuzey-Sarzec, _Decouvertes en
Chaldee_, pl. 14.

The royal wardrobe, jewels, arms, and insignia formed so many distinct
departments, and each was further divided into minor sections for
body-linen, washing, or for this or that kind of headdress or sceptre.
The dress of the women, which was singularly like that of the men,
required no less a staff of attendants. The female servants, as well
as the male, went about bare to the waist, at all events while working
indoors. When they went out, they wore the same sort of tunic or
loin-cloth, but longer and more resembling a petticoat; they had the
same "abayah" drawn round the shoulders or rolled about the body like
a cloak, but with the women it nearly touched the ground; sometimes an
actual dress seems to have been substituted for the "abayah," drawn in
to the figure by a belt and cut out of the same hairy material as that
of which the mantles were made. The boots were of soft leather, laced,
and without heels; the women's ornaments were more numerous than those
of the men, and comprised necklaces, bracelets, ankle, finger, and ear
rings; their hair was separated into bands and kept in place on the
forehead by a fillet, falling in thick plaits or twisted into a coil on
the nape of the neck.

[Illustration: 262.jpg COSTUME OF A CHALDAEN LADY (right)]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the alabaster statuette in the
Louvre, published in Heuzey. She holds in her hand the jar
full of water, analogous to the streaming vase mentioned
above.

A great deal of the work was performed by foreign or native slaves,
generally under the command of eunuchs, to whom the king and royal
princes entrusted most of the superintendence of their domestic
arrangements; they guarded and looked after the sleeping apartments,
they fanned and kept the flies from their master, and han