Kausia

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.

A kausia (Ancient Greek: καυσία) was an ancient Macedonian flat hat which was worn during the Hellenistic period but perhaps even before the time of Alexander the Great and was also used in lion hunting^{[citation needed]} and 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 the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the Indo-Greeks in northwestern India. A modern descendant of the hat may be the pakul, a men's hat from the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.