Limnitis-Mersineri: the Cyprus Exploration Fund sanctuary dig

In April 1889 H. Arnold Tubbs directed an exploration at Mersineri, near Limniti, for the Cyprus Exploration Fund. Mersineri lies west of the mouth of the Limniti river, where a small temenos stood immediately above a natural spring. Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter attribute the sanctuary to "Apollo Amyklaios"¹.

The finds were mostly native-work votive terracottas, with a few fourth-century Greek figurines and pottery, and three small bronze statuettes¹. Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter also record earlier plundering of the site, whose spoils they place partly in the Berlin Museum, partly in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and partly in Ohnefalsch-Richter's possession¹. The terracottas listed in the catalogue's Limniti collection section that follow are labelled as probably from the excavation of 1888¹.

J. A. R. Munro and H. A. Tubbs published the work in the Journal of Hellenic Studies 11 (1890), in "Excavations in Cyprus, 1889: Second Season's Work: Polis tes Chrysochou; Limniti"; Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter cite its Limniti section at pp. 88–91². A later Fitzwilliam Museum catalogue says the museum received division material from the sanctuary at Limniti among the Cyprus Exploration Fund finds of 1888 to 1891, without naming objects or assigning them to a particular year³.