The dress of the eunuchs is most commonly a long fringed gown, reaching from the neck to the feet, with very short sleeves, and a broad belt or girdle confining the gown at the waist.
Sometimes they have a cross-belt also; and occasionally both this and the girdle round the waist are richly fringed.

The eunuchs commonly wear earrings, and sometimes armlets and bracelets; in a few instances they have their necks adorned with necklaces, and their long dresses elaborately patterned.

Their heads are either bare, or at most encircled with a fillet.
[Illustration: PLATE 115] A peculiar physiognomy is assigned to this class of persons--the forehead low, the nose small and rounded, the lips full, the chin large and double, the cheeks bloated.

[PLATE CXV., Fig.

2.] They are generally represented as shorter and stouter than the other Assyrians.