Kition: Myres for the Cyprus Exploration Fund

At the Kamelarga sanctuary, on the north boundary of Kition beside the town wall, two shafts in 1894 met a votive rubbish deposit in which terracottas were packed in a layer over three feet thick¹. John Linton Myres, working for the Cyprus Exploration Fund, examined only a small area at Kamelarga; the catalogue lists tambourine-players and figures bringing offerings among the common types¹. V. Karageorghis, in the Vienna catalogue, suggests that the sanctuary may have been founded in the seventh century BCE and continued into the Hellenistic period². The Vienna catalogue reports the Kamelarga terracotta and limestone figures as now mostly in the Cyprus Museum². A statuette that fell to the excavator's share is in the Ashmolean Museum¹, and Margos reports that the Kamelarga figurines in the Brussels museum came through an exchange with the Ashmolean³.

On Batsalos hill Myres found a sanctuary already ransacked by L. P. di Cesnola and recovered its ground-plan and a few fragments¹. In the Kition necropolis, in the Vakuf land around Turabi Téké and in Hassan Effendi's field, 63 tombs were opened; the catalogue sorts the groups into Graeco-Phoenician and Hellenistic classes¹. Tomb 6 held a late Graeco-Phoenician lamp with Hellenistic pottery and glass, and Tombs 31–37 were the mixed contents of four collapsed tombs¹. A Graeco-Phoenician wine amphora from Tomb 56 was presented by the Fund, and the rest of that group is in the Ashmolean¹. A limestone stele with a Phoenician inscription in letters of the fourth to third century, was left in the custody of the Commissioner of Larnaka¹. Myres also found a two-chambered masonry tomb in Old Larnaka¹.

Myres published the season as "Excavations in Cyprus in 1894" in the Journal of Hellenic Studies 17 (1897)⁴.