Kausia

A kausia was a flat Macedonian hat which was worn during the Hellenistic period. The Macedonian kausia was originally identical with a cap often called a chitrali still worn today by men in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nuristan. No kausia is mentioned in Greek literature before 325/24 B. C. No depiction of the cap can be securely dated earlier than that time. The kausia came to the Mediterranean as a campaign hat worn by Alexander and veterans of his campaigns in India. Perhaps the best known depiction of a Kausia on a coin, that of the Baktrian king Antimachos I.

                                                                     
A Hellenistic Macedonian terracotta                                      A modern Afghani man wearing a chitrali                                          A silver tetradrachm of the Baktrian king Antimachos I
figure wearing a kausia