Medo-Persian Kingdom: Peculiar Customs In
Source: TTT
Esther 1:8
By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
Esther 2:12, 13
In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months. / When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.