Dr Anna Reeve Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The material legacies of excavation and collecting in Cyprus can be seen today in many British museums. The British in Cyprus – travellers, diplomats, colonial officials, guests and temporary residents – took the opportunity to bring antiquities back with them, while in the UK, networks of scholars, collectors, institutions, dealers, artists and others drew in and circulated antiquities, which often came to rest in the local museums where they remain. Some of the histories underpinn