Other examples show that the tiara was commonly worn as a part of the sacerdotal costume; that the sacred collar adorned the breast, necklaces the neck, and bracelets the two arms; while in the belt, which was generally to some extent knotted, were borne two or three daggers.

The mace seems to have been a necessary appendage to the costume, and was always grasped just below its head by the left hand.
We have but one representation of an Assyrian queen.

Despite the well-known stories of Semiramis and her manifold exploits, it would seem that the Assyrians secluded their females with as rigid and watchful a jealousy as modern Turks or Persians.

The care taken with respect to the direction of the passages in the royal hareem has been noticed already.
It is quite in accordance with the spirit thus indicated, and with the general tenor of Oriental habits, that neither in inscriptions nor in sculptured representations do the Assyrians allow their women to make more than a most rare and occasional appearance.

Fortunately for us, their jealousy was sometimes relaxed to a certain extent; and in one scene, recovered from the _debris_ of an Assyrian palace we are enabled to contemplate at once the domestic life of the monarch and the attire and even the features of his consort.
It appears that in the private apartments, while the king, like the Romans and the modern Orientals, reclined upon a couch leaning his weight partly upon his left elbow, and having his right arm free and disposable, her majesty the queen sat in a chair of state by the couch's side, near its foot, and facing her lord.