Enkomi: John Myres's trial excavation for the Cyprus Museum

In autumn 1913 John L. Myres carried out a trial excavation at Enkomi on behalf of the Cyprus Museum Committee^1,2. Meyers names Menelaos Markides alongside him, without specifying their roles². The work was in a chamber tomb cut into the low limestone escarpment along the east side of the Bronze Age cemetery. Myres reports that the tomb had long been looted and held only a few other pottery fragments, among them common Late Minoan painted ware¹. The main find was a fragment of a large clay store-jar bearing an inscription incised after firing, which Myres published as a Cypro-Mycenaean inscription¹. Other chamber tombs along the same escarpment, also looted, gave sherds enough to associate them with the cemetery below¹. The jar fragment was deposited in the Cyprus Museum at once, together with other objects from the excavation¹.