Kyrenia: tomb openings by the Scott-Stevensons

In March 1882 a Turkish Cypriot landowner from Kyrenia had found an ancient tomb, and the digging that followed was reported in conflicting terms. According to Reeve, the newspaper Aletheia alleged that Esmé Scott-Stevenson began digging and took antiquities to her house, while Andrew Scott-Stevenson replied that the tomb had already been broken into and that the owner gave some pottery to the party; Reeve says it is impossible to judge whether the pottery was gifted or appropriated¹. In 1883 Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter record excavations by Capt. Stevenson at Kyrenia (Kerynia), in a Hellenistic necropolis round the modern town that they call much plundered; a few confiscated vases and other items were shown in Kyrenia Castle². Reeve identifies the 1883 excavator as Andrew Scott-Stevenson and says there is no evidence that he left a record of his methods or findings¹.