Your Mushroom Cap It contains as many lice, as spores Clouding upon your head, that never see Sunlight, through your mustard-oiled thickets… …Ataturk, perforce emancipated Turks from Fez, The caps, once stolen by monkeys from a caravaneer, And he by his wits, threw his own and monkeys followed. Sadiqullah Khan Islamabad July 16, 2014. The kausia (Ancient Greek: καυσία) was an ancient Macedonian flat hat. It was worn during the Hellenistic period but perhaps even before the time of Alexander the Great and was later used as a protection against the sun by the poorer classes in Rome. Depictions of the kausia can be found on a variety of coins and statues found from the Mediterranean to theGreco-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. A modern descendant of the hat may be the Pakol, or Chitrali cap: the familiar, and remarkably similar, mens hat from the mountains of Afghanistan. A pakol (Pashto/Dari/Chitrali: پکول), or the Afghan cap, is a soft, round-topped mens hat, typically of wool and found in any of a variety of earthy colors: brown, black, gray, or ivory, or dyed red using walnut. Before it is fitted, it resembles a bag with a round, flat bottom. The wearer rolls up the sides nearly to the top, forming a thick band, which then rests on the head like a beret or cap. It is seen as a hat of all ethnic groups of Afghanistan. @ Wikipedia Boy wearing a cloak, boots and a kausia (Macedonian cap). Terracotta, made in Athens, ca. 300 BC.
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