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Traveller / antiquarian

Francesco Attar

fl. 1540 · Italy

Italian traveller, active in 1540.

Life and work

  1. c. 1540
    Described as the Venetian who, independently of Ludwig Tschudi (1519), recognised the ruins at Couvoucle/Kouklia as the Sanctuary of Aphrodite, against the medieval habit of placing it at Kato Paphos (Saranda Kolones). Source of the identification: Attar's Relatione del regno di Cipro, ed. Mas Latrie, Histoire de l'île de Chypre III (Paris 1855) 528.

    KoukliaMaier & Karageorghis 1984, p. 16 ; n. 3Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 70 ; n. 3Maier 2004Mitford & Iliffe 1951, p. 1

Sources

  1. 1.F. Attar (1855). “Relatione del regno di Cipro”. Histoire de l'île de Chypre sous le règne des princes de la maison de Lusignan 3, 528-. Paris.
  2. 2.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  4. 4.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  5. 5.T. B. Mitford, J. H. Iliffe (1951). “Excavations at Kouklia (Old Paphos), Cyprus, 1950”. Antiquaries Journal 31, 51-66.