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Macedonian kausia(flat-hat)
The kausia (Ancient Greek: καυσία[1]) was an ancient Macedonian flat hat.
Two 4th and 3rd century BC terracotta statues from Athens depicting ancient Macedonians wearing the kausia.
Indo-Greek king Antialcidas wearing the kausia. Japan Currency Museum.
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 ('Ionians') with hats that look like shields", possibly referring to the Macedonian kausia hat.[4]
A modern descendant of the hat may be the Pakol: the familiar and remarkably similar men's hat from Afghanistan and Pakistan.[5]
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