Kausia
Two 4th and 3rd century BC terracotta statues from Athens depicting Ancient Greeks wearing the kausia.
The kausia or causia (
Macedonian kings as part of the royal costume.[2]
Name
The name is derived from its keeping off the heat (καῦσις).[2]
Background
It was worn during the
Hellenistic period but perhaps even before the time of Alexander the Great[3] and was later used as a protection against the sun by the poorer classes in Rome.[4]
Depictions of the kausia can be found on a variety of coins and statues found from the
Indus[6] but according to Ernst Fredricksmeyer the kausia was too established a staple of the Macedonian wardrobe for it to have been imported from Asia to Macedonia.[7]
A modern descendant of the hat may be the Pakol: the familiar and remarkably similar men's hat from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir.[8]
Gallery
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Ancient Macedonian soldiers, from the tomb of Agios Athanasios (Greece) wearing the causia (grave of Agios Athanasios, IV BC, before the invasion of the Indus by Alexander the Great. -
Japan Currency Museum.
See also
- Clothing in ancient Greece
- Pileus (hat)
- Petasos
- Konos (helmet)
- Pakol
References
- ^ Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. "καυσία". A Greek-English Lexicon – via Perseus.
- ^ a b Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Causia
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- S2CID 193037990.
- ISBN 9780674574373.
- ISBN 978-1-4051-7936-2.
- ^ Kingsley, Bonnie M. (1981). The Cap That Survived Alexander. Vol. 85. p. 39.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Fredricksmeyer, Ernst (1986). Alexander the Great and the Macedonian kausia. Vol. 116. pp. 215–227.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ISBN 978-0198149286.
External links
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