Kausia
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| Two 4th and 3rd century BC terracotta statues from Athens depicting ancient Macedonians wearing the kausia. | |
The kausia (Ancient Greek: καυσία[1]) was an ancient Macedonian flat hat.
It was worn during the Hellenistic period but perhaps even before the time of Alexander the Great[2] and was later used as a protection against the sun by the poorer classes in Rome.[3]
Depictions of the kausia can be found on a variety of coins and statues found from the Mediterranean to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the Indo-Greeks in northwestern India. The Persians referred to the Macedonians as Yaunã Takabara or "Greeks with hats that look like shields", possibly referring to the Macedonian kausia hat.[4]
A modern descendant of the hat may be the Pakol, or 'Chitrali cap': the familiar, and remarkably similar, men's hat from the mountains of Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan.[5]
References
- ↑ καυσία, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ↑ "The Kausia Diadematophoros", American Journal of Archaeology, 1984, on JSTOR
- ↑ "Miles gloriosus", Harvard University Press, 1997, on Google books
- ↑ Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (2010). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 1-4051-7936-8, p.87
- ↑ Ian Worthington, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Ventures into Greek history, p. 135, Clarendon Press, 1994
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