QUICK FACTS
Name: Roman sun hat
What it is: A conical felted wool hat
Where it is from: Lahun, Egypt
When it was made: Between A.D. 395 and 642
This sun hat was made from different colors of felted wool in Egypt during the early Christian or Coptic period. It is one of only three such hats that has survived the ages and the best preserved of them. The sun hat was donated to the Chadwick Museum in Bolton, England — later called the Bolton Museum — by Sir Flinders Petrie, the English Egyptologist who found it in 1911.
