The upper part of this king's dress is in one instance almost covered with figures, which range themselves round a circular breast ornament, whereof the cut opposite is a representation.

Elsewhere his apparel is less superb, and indeed it presents almost every degree of richness, from the wonderful embroidery of the robe just mentioned to absolute plainness.

In the celebrated picture of the lion-hunt.

[PLATE LXXXVI., Fig.

2.] With Sargon, the next king who has left many monuments, the case is remarkably different.
Sargon is represented always in the same dress--a long fringed robe, embroidered simply with rosettes, which are spread somewhat scantily over its whole surface.