Did Mary visit the wrong tomb (not Jesus's)?

Introduction

Clarifying the question

Question: On Sunday, did Mary mistake an empty tomb for Jesus's (i.e. did she visit the wrong tomb)

Scholars don't take this theory seriously

This theory was originally put forward by Kirsopp Lake.¹ Today, few scholars take it seriously.²

• Kirsopp Lake (NT Exegesis and Early Christian Literature professor at Leiden): “It is seriously a matter for doubt whether the women were really in a position to be quite certain that the tomb which they visited was that in which they had seen Joseph of Arimathea bury the Lord's body. The neighborhood of Jerusalem is full of rock-tombs, and it would not be easy to distinguish one from another without careful notes. So far as their frame of mind at the time of burial was concerned, the women were certainly not fit to take such notes. They had spent the day watching the dying agony of their Master, and it is not in human nature at such a time calmly to consider the question of locality. Moreover, it is very doubtful if they were close to the tomb at the moment of burial. As was shown in chapters ii. and vi., it is very likely that they were watching from a distance,… they would have had but a limited power to distinguish between one rock-tomb and another close to it.” [The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus (Williams & Norgate, 1907), 250.]
• Paul Gwynne (Classics professor at AUR): “…the ‘mistaken tomb’ theory has very few serious supporters these days and has hardly been mentioned in the literature of the last ten years.” [“The Fate of Jesus' Body: Another Decade of Debate.” Colloquium 32 (2000): 14.]

Reasons given for answering "No"

Graveclothes were in the tomb Mary visited

Graveclothes were in that tomb. (Note: They were on the bench). This is relevant because empty tombs would not standardly have graveclothes resting on their respective benches (much less clothes that appeared as if a body had disappeared out from under them, like the clothes in this tomb did).

Jesus's tomb was recognizable

Jesus's tomb was very intrinsically recognizable.¹ This is relevant because, if the tomb was intrinsically recognizable, then it by definition would be hard to mistake for another.

This should be granted for two reasons:
• Jesus was observed to have been buried in a new tomb (Multiply attested. Mt 27:60, Lk 23:53, Jn 19:41-42), with no other occupants.
• In general it was hard to mistake such tombs. From the tomb's golel (the blocking-stone) to its surroundings, there was a plethora variation in tombs.

Robert Stein (NT professor): “…this was no Forest Lawn Cemetary-Jerusalem Branch, where one could mistake tomb 10,358 with look-alike tomb 18,494! This was a private burial tomb. We have no reason for concluding that there were similar tombs in the immediate area that could have been confused with this one.” [Jesus the Messiah (IVP, 1996), 267.]

Jerusalem church said so

In c. AD 30, The Jerusalem Church's official position was that “yes, Mary did discover Jesus's tomb empty.” This is relevant because the Jerusalem church knew exactly where Jesus's corpse was placed after being crucified.

C. E. B. Cranfield (NT scholar at Durham): “…it is difficult to imagine how [a wrong tomb] mistake would not have been quickly corrected.” [“The Resurrection of Jesus Christ.” in The Historical Jesus in Recent Reserch, eds. Dunn & McKnight (Eisenbrauns, 2005), 390.]