Amathus: Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavation of four tombs

In 1885 Max Ohnefalsch-Richter opened four undisturbed tombs at Amathus, described as Graeco-Phoenician, and Hermary states that he excavated them at his own expense.^1,2 In the necropolis he also found an early altar with votive terracottas.¹

He explored a small sanctuary northeast of the town, which the catalogue lists as not yet excavated, and brought statuettes and terracottas to light there; Hermary notes that it was dedicated to several divinities.^1,2 Hermary characterizes the activity as limited and cautions that the limestone statuettes discussed in his own article should not be assigned to the tombs of 1885.² The only object from these excavations that Ohnefalsch-Richter explicitly described and illustrated, in Hermary's account, is a terracotta model of a shrine, which the catalogue associates with the sanctuary and which is in the Philadelphia Museum.^1,2