{{italic}} [[Image:Close up of Arbinas, wearing a kyrbasia.jpg|thumb|The satrap Arbinas wearing a ''kyrbasia''. Nereid Monument.{{sfn|Strootman|2017|p=189}}]] The '''''kyrbasia''''' (Old Persian: ''*kurpāsa'') was a type of headgear worn by the satraps of the Achaemenid Empire.{{sfn|Canepa|2018|p=252}} It was later adopted by several post-Achaemenid dynasties, including the early Arsacids of Parthia, the early Ariarathids of Cappadocia, the Orontids of Sophene, and the Frataraka of Persis.{{sfn|Strootman|2017|pp=194, 207, 216}}
The ''kyrbasia'' is sometimes erroneously referred to as a ''bashlyk'', the Turkic word (''başlık'' in Turkish) for a similar headgear used by Cumans, Kipchaks and Tatars during the Middle Ages.{{sfn|Strootman|2017|p=188 (see note 50)}}
The ''kyrbasia'' may be identical with the headgear called ''kidaris'' in ancient sources.
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