[Fig. 33]: This woman, a captive of Sennacherib who reigned in eighth and seventh centuries B.C., wears a long tunic, and over it a long shawl fringed at the two ends and measuring 50” × 80”. To drape this shawl, place one corner under the left arm-pit and draw it across the back under the right arm-pit, wrapping it once round the body; draw it across the back and up over right shoulder. A corner of the fringed end will hang down in front of the right shoulder.
[Plate XII.]
[Plate XII.] shows a number of characteristic Assyrian ornaments.
a, The sacred tree.
b, c, d, e, f, Repeating patterns on costumes.
g, h, i, j, k, l, Borders on costumes.