It wasn't actually a hat, it wwnt onto a hat you were already wearing, like a headpiece. And even then, you'd only wear it a few times a year at ceremonies.

I recently finished reading "The Art of Forgery" by Noah Charney and that is the exact same feeling I had. Great book, very interesting, but it will leave you curious and perhaps a little doubtful about all art that you look at afterwards. Things like this are so wild and unlikely (to me at least) that when something like it comes up with zero provenance it just raises a whole lot of questions.

I honestly didn't get that feeling but I am genuinely obsessed with museums and landing on the museum Island, I had spent the entire day lurking through the museums and by the time I got to the gold had, my brain had turned into melted jelly, I could barely focus my eyes at that point.

I had a similar kind of "something isn't right here" feeling when I saw the mold cape (linked in wikipedia article on Golden Hats). It was so tiny and would have been so cumbersome to wear that there might be something we are missing. These things might look vaguely like hats, but they don't really make sense as "clothing" even for spiritual purposes.

I had a similar feeling walking through a lot of the Pergamon