Dhrymou: Besh-Besh's digging for Cesnola

Local people told Hogarth that Besh-Besh (Bostantus Beshes), whom Olivier Masson identifies as Luigi Palma di Cesnola's principal trusted man, dug near the ruined church of Agios Minas, nearly a mile north of Dhrymou, and found terracottas and statuettes¹. The date of the digging is not recorded¹. Masson separates it from the earlier discovery of the syllabic inscriptions, which on his reading of Hogarth's wording was made by a shepherd without Besh-Besh¹. He notes that Cesnola's publications do not name Dhrymou, and proposes only as a hypothesis that the inscription ICS 335, published by Cesnola as found at Palaeo-Paphos, may be connected with Besh-Besh's activity there¹.