Vounous: the British School at Athens expedition under Stewart

At Site A, in the eastern part of the Vounous necropolis, James R. B. Stewart opened 25 tombs, by Dikaios's account about 500 yards east of the areas he excavated and, later, excavated in collaboration with the Louvre¹. The tombs share pottery with a marked stump base, and Dikaios interprets the material as an early stage of the Bronze Age¹. He placed Site A within the sequence he proposed for Vounous, as an earlier stage than the material from his own area and Schaeffer's¹. From Stewart's Tomb 164B he cites a white plain jar of Syrian or Palestinian origin¹.

The expedition ran in 1937 and 1938 under James Stewart and Eleanor Stewart, sponsored by the British School at Athens^1,2,3. Powell lists the Craven Fund of the University of Cambridge and the Sladen Fund of the Linnaean Society of London as funders, with Charles Hyde, Charles Marston, W.J. Beasley and A.A. Stewart as financial subscribers³. Local workmen were employed³. The Cyprus Museum lent Eve Dray to assist with drawing³. Powell names Andreas Stylianou as one of two teenage boys who worked at the benches mending and drawing pottery, and reports that Andreas Diamantis did much of the drawing during school holidays³.

The results were published as Vounous 1937–38 (Lund, 1950)⁴. Myres, reviewing it, notes that the results had been announced in Antiquity XIV (1940), pp. 204–209. He reports that part of the excavator's share of the finds went to the Birmingham Museum of Art and the remainder to the Nicholson Museum at Sydney².