Psematismenos: Ohnefalsch-Richter's tomb opening

In 1885 Max Ohnefalsch-Richter opened four tombs at Psematismenos: two for himself and two for Dr. Dümmler^1,2. The catalogue of the Cyprus Museum describes the settlement and necropolis, on a hill between Psemmatisméno and Marôni, as Early Bronze Age¹. Merrillees notes that the precise location of the openings cannot be established, and that circumstantial evidence favours the east side of Trelloukkas hill².

Merrillees identifies one burial deposit as excavated on 20 May 1885². From the illustrated pottery he considers that deposit possibly Middle Cypriote I, on the evidence of a jug². The four tombs were never numbered².

Ohnefalsch-Richter also retrieved a stone corn rubber from the Bronze Age settlement in 1885, entered in the Cyprus Museum catalogue as No. 471². Merrillees further describes an alleged tomb group that Ohnefalsch-Richter bought from a "peasant" in Psematismenos, and notes that a seal said to come from the village is out of context and cannot have formed part of the original tomb group². The contents of the tombs were once displayed together in the Cyprus Museum and were found dispersed in 1894; Merrillees writes that they cannot now be traced^1,2.