tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744269.post6855197665027765284..comments2023-09-25T10:09:15.177+01:00Comments on human rights archaeology:<br>cultural heritage in conflict: Cypriot antiquities, Severis Collection - intercommunal conflict, bicommunal illicit antiquities tradesamarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744269.post-88719332196071769562020-05-16T14:54:14.132+01:002020-05-16T14:54:14.132+01:00HOW I GOT MY LOAN FROM THIS GREAT COMPANY CALLED C...HOW I GOT MY LOAN FROM THIS GREAT COMPANY CALLED CARROL WALKER LOAN COMPANY<br /><br />Hello to All across the globe, I am Martha Loiussa, currently living in JAPAN now. I am a widow at the moment with 2 kids and I was stuck in a financial situation in march 2019 and I needed to refinance and pay my bills. 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With the agreement of the Ministry of Communications and Works, the Department of Antiquities at that time decided to follow a policy of “silent accord”, allowing Cypriots who had access to the Turkish enclaves to buy the “spoils” of looting.... Thus, large private collections were formed, which their owners were asked to declare to the Department of Antiquities during the last six months of 1973. The most important of them are the Hadjiprodromou Collection (Famagusta), the Pierides Collection (Larnaca) and the Severis Collection (Nicosia).'<br /><br />To be absolutely clear, another former antiquities director, Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2001: 135), stated that 'all antiquities acquired were illegal in the sense that they all came from illicit excavations'.<br /><br />"My" claims were repetitions of the published statements of Greek Cypriot archaeologists. What is my alleged agenda?<br /><br />Since they are not my claims but the statements of those Greek Cypriot archaeologists, which statements should Karageorghis and Hadjisavvas retract?<br /><br />Hadjisavvas, S. 2001: “The destruction of the archaeological heritage of Cyprus”. In Brodie, N, Doole, J and Renfrew, C, (Eds.). Trade in illicit antiquities: The destruction of the world’s archaeological heritage, 133-139. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.<br /><br />Karageorghis, V. 1999: Ancient Cypriote art in the Severis Collection. Athens: Costakis and Leto Severis Foundation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17744269.post-80050258706610469072014-12-23T22:33:37.798+00:002014-12-23T22:33:37.798+00:00If any single item in the collection were obtained...If any single item in the collection were obtained illegally, as you claim, how do you explain that each and every one item has been numbered by and registered with the Cyprus Antiquities Department since 1978? Furthermore, how come that no authority in Cyprus has made a similar claim in the last five years, while the collection has been exhibited daily, in its entirety, in full view of the public, at the Leventeion Municipal Museum in Nicosia?<br /> <br />Since you have no plausible explanation, either you did not know the above two facts which explains why I believe you to be ignorant.<br /> <br />If you go back to the darker days of the Cyprus Republic, in a small part of the island after 1964 and in a larger part after 1974, the illegal Turkish tomb thieves were digging up and selling artifacts to anyone with cash. Discretely and totally unofficially, the Government of the Republic which was strapped for cash, let it be known that it would look the other way if certain Greek Cypriot collectors were to buy such artifacts and bring them South. In several trips, not without risk, the Severis family obtained such artifacts and added them to their already considerable collection, thus saving them from export and permanent loss to the Greek Cypriot public. The proof of the tacit agreement of the Government with such an initiative, came in 1978 when the whole collection (together with some others) was taken to the Cyprus Museum and recorded without ANY comment or allusion to illegality. So who are you to throw mud at a civic effort because of your own personal agenda? I ask that you retract what you said and apologise or else demonstrate why thirty seven years later and in full view of the public, there is still no comment or allusion to illegality from the appropriate authorities, as was the case for certain other collections. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com