9. Of the Parthian period there are numerous examples of a standing man with a flower in the right hand, which is laid on the breast; the left hand is hanging down and holds a wreath (?). He is clothed in a sleeved garment that reaches to the knees, and wears trousers; in addition he has a cloak with a hood that covers his head and chin, leaving his moustache visible; round his hips is a girdle with the ends hanging down. The cross ribbing on the sleeves and trousers is characteristic of this period (Fig. 216). [Illustration: FIG. 218.—Woman holding palm branch (?). ] [Illustration: FIG. 219.—Woman holding palm branch (deity?). ] [Illustration: FIG. 220.—Woman holding palm branch, Greek style. ] 10. The female figure corresponding to this male type also holds a flower in the right hand on the breast, and a wreath in the left hand that hangs down, but the hood leaves the round hairless face uncovered; long ringlets fall over the shoulders, and the sleeved garment is tucked up above the knees and confined below the waist with a girdle. The legs are bare (Fig. 217). 11. A rare type that belongs to the same period is the figure of a man in exactly the same clothing, but with the arms crossed on the breast. 12. A clothed figure of a woman with Babylonian characteristics (Fig. 218) holds an upright palm branch (?) in her left hand. Some strands of hair hang down her cheeks; the right hand is laid on the breast. The same type occurs also roughly worked as an idol (Fig. 219), as well as in good Greek workmanship (Fig. 220). [Illustration: FIG. 221.—Terra-cotta amulet. ] [Illustration: FIG. 222.—Musician with double flute. ] [Illustration: FIG. 223.—Lute-player. ] [Illustration: FIG. 224.—Lute-player. ] 13. A head of appalling horror is either bored through at the top to be worn as an amulet or hollowed out at the throat to be fixed on to a stick. Two cross-ribbed horns stretch from the forehead over the skull; the goggle eyes are widely open; the gaping muzzle shows all the teeth, including four powerful canines. The bristly beard is either represented by short locks or indicated by rows of holes in the smooth lower jaw (Fig. 221). [Illustration: FIG. 225.—Woman with harp. ] [Illustration: FIG. 226.—Woman with tambourine. ] [Illustration: FIG. 227.—Woman reclining. ] [Illustration: FIG. 228.—Woman reclining. ] [Illustration: FIG. 229.—Pottery mask. ] 14. Musicians were less frequently represented in the Babylonian period than in the Greek period. They play the double flute (Fig. 222) which is in use among the Arabs at the present day and known as the _mutbak_; the panpipe, a long lute with smaller or wider sounding-board (Figs. 223, 224); the oriental harp (Fig. 225), the tambourine (Fig. 226), the cithara, and other instruments which will afford an interesting study for connoisseurs of musical instruments. 15. The figure seated on the censer has already (p. 257) been described, also.