The Battle of El Alamein. Fred Majdalany

Antiquities in Oundle School

“…The conical hat, in ancient Greek a tholia, but usually called a sun-hat, is common on Tanagras, and probably represents an everyday straw hat, attached by means of a band and pin. 234 Higgins aptly cites Theocritus, Idyll 15.39, and it may be added that in the poem, Praxinoa says 'tompechonon fere moi kai tan tholian'; as Gow 235 notes, 'Praxinoa has probably hooded her head in the ampechonon [wrap] before putting the tholia over it'. This sounds exactly like a description of many Tanagras, including ours.…”