Henry Beauchamp Walters

H. B. Walters dug 118 tombs at Kourion between 24 January and 11 April 1895, the second season paid for by the bequest of Miss Emma Turner to the British Museum^1,4. Alexander Stuart Murray described him as a Cambridge graduate and Etonian who "will do the work excellently"². He worked with the museum's agents in Cyprus, John William Williamson and Percy Christian, across five cemeteries and a small sanctuary, the "Temple Site", which yielded a bilingual dedication to Demeter and Kore^1,4. Thomas Kiely and Ulbrich judge his methods inferior to Myres's at Amathus; no plan or section of any Bronze Age tomb at Bamboula was made, though the site gave the first sizeable body of Late Bronze Age tomb material recorded in situ¹. He wrote to the museum that a scarab with Egyptian hieroglyphs lay in the same tomb as a Mycenaean kylix, offered as "evidences of date"².

In November and December 1897 he superintended the excavation of 28 numbered tombs at Maroni, at Tsaroukkas and Vournes. He reported about thirty productive tombs in the first month and nothing exceptional; part of the gold and a representative series of pottery went to the Cyprus Museum in the division of finds^1,3. The work moved briefly to Hala Sultan Tekke in December¹.

With Murray and Arthur Hamilton Smith he wrote Excavations in Cyprus (1900)⁷. He also catalogued the museum's bronzes (1899), terracottas (1903), Greek and Etruscan vases (1912) and engraved gems (1926)^4,6. In December 1899 he wrote the accession entries for the Kouklia finds the museum acquired, and Kiely thinks the findspot he gave was probably copied from the report of F. B. Welch; the 1903 and 1912 catalogues reproduce some of these pieces⁶.