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 TllEMEii AND TiiElK SITUATIONS. corselet open at the sides for the arms and wide sleeves of the dress. The feet were defended by shoes of soft yellow leather, fastened in front and reaching high up the instep. Their persons were adorned with jewellery ; golden bracelets around the wrists, and pendants of the same material in their ears. A simj)lc fillet bound their heads, very similar to the cord of camel's hair Fig. 305.— MakalhMtnaleak Tonb of Darius. Head ofgnardaiDui. Ffom a phoMcnpIi of M. H<mmj. used by the Arabs of Syria and Palestine to keep in place their kuffyieh. If the head-covering of the greater proportion of the royal guards at Persepolis is the ribbed or round-topped tiara (Fig. 203), a good many are attired in the style and reproduce the type we have just described (Fig. 204) ; the only difference is the absence of corselets, bow. and quivers. Guards, however, shouldering the bow are sculptured at the sides of the tomb of Darius (Fig. 205), and are precisely similar to those referred to Digitized by Google