1.] [Illustration: PLATE 113] Another head-dress which the monarch sometimes wore was a sort of band or fillet.

This was either elevated in front and ornamented with a single rosette, like the lowest band of the tiara, or else of uniform width and patterned along its whole course.

In either case there depended from it, on each side of the back hair, a long ribbon or streamer, fringed at the end and sometimes ornamented with a delicate pattern.

[PLATE CXIII., Fig 2.] The monarch's feet were protected by sandals or shoes.

In the early sculptures sandals only appear in use, shoes being unknown (as it would seem) until the time of Sennacherib.