Leonardo Donà

A marble sarcophagus found at Soloi by Hieronimo Attar in 1557 is known from the journal of the Venetian Leonardo Donà. The journal, held in the Civico Museo Correr, runs from December 1556 to October 1557 and fills 31 leaves; Gilles Grivaud calls its author a "jeune homme" and gives his father as Zuan Battista, luocotenente¹.

Donà recorded Attar's discovery at Soloi of a marble sarcophagus decorated with women on rearing horses fighting men on foot¹. At Famagosta vecchia, the ruins of Salamis, he noted fine columns broken by people trying to carry them away. He judged Lambousa not very ancient, because of its Christian inscriptions and burials, and remarked on its harbour's small capacity¹. Grivaud reads his "Limisso vecchia" as Amathus¹.

Grivaud, discussing the account of Lusignan, argues that finds of this kind came from individual initiative¹. He edited the journal and published it in 1986¹.