To this rod was attached the rings which received the quiver strap, a triple tassel hanging from them at the point of attachment.

The strap was probably of leather, and appears to have been twisted or plaited.
[Illustration: PLATE 105] It is uncertain whether the material of the quivers was wood or metal.
As, however, no remains of quivers have been discovered in any of the ruins, while helmets, shields, diggers, spear-heads, and arrow-heads have been found in tolerable abundance, we may perhaps assume that they were of the more fragile substance, which would account for their destruction.

In this case their ornamentation may have been either by carving or painting, the bosses and rosettes being perhaps in some cases of metal, mother-of-pearl, or ivory.

Ornaments of this kind were discovered by hundreds at Nimrud in a chamber which contained arms of many descriptions.

Quivers have in some cases a curious rounded head, which seems to have been a lid or cap used for covering the arrows.