Iron Age
Textile analysis of the Tarim Mummies has shown some similarities to the Iron Age civilizations of Europe dating from 800 BC, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to tartans from Northern Europe. One unusual find was a distinctively pointed hat:
- Yet another female - her skeleton found beside the remains of a man - still wore a terrifically tall, conical hat just like those we depict on witches riding broomsticks at Halloween or on medieval wizards intent at their magical spells. (Barber 1999:200)
Pointed hats were also worn in ancient times by Saka (Scythians), and are shown on Hindu temples and in Hittite reliefs. The name of the Scythian tribe of the tigrakhauda (Orthocorybantians) is a bahuvrihi compound literally translating to "people with pointed hats".
The Hallstatt culture Warrior of Hirschlanden wears a pointed hat or helmet.
Hephaestus, the Cabeiri as well as Odysseus are traditionally pictured wearing a Pilos, or woolen conical hat.
- Iron Age conical hats
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Relief in Hattusa, probably depicting Suppiluliuma II.
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The "golden man" of the Issyk kurgan.
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Odysseus wearing a Pilos
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