Foundation
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
Nicosia, Cyprus · founded 1984
Foundation in Nicosia, founded 1984. 12 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
Its Archaeological Collection is the George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides collection: more than 600 Cypriot antiquities on display, of which 442 catalogue numbers were published in 2002; 104 further objects were added on long-term loan in 2015. It also administers the Pierides Museum in Larnaca (about 2,500 objects per tourism sources). (2015)
History
- 1984The Bank of Cyprus founded the Foundation, with the stated aim of encouraging research on Cypriot civilisation and rescuing Cypriot cultural heritage. The date and the aim are the Foundation's own account.
Nicosia
- 1987–1997Maria Iacovou served as Director of the Foundation.
- 1995The Foundation's Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage was established (Foundation's own account).
- 1997The Foundation published A. Le Brun's guide Khirokitia: A Neolithic Site, with the English text revised by Costoula Sclavenitis and the edition prepared by Marie-Lise Mitsou; Andreas Patsalides is listed as President in the same book.
NicosiaAlain Le BrunCostoula SclavenitisMarie-Lise MitsouAndreas PatsalidesBrun 1997, p. 9
- 1999Clio and Solon A. Triantafyllides, daughter and son-in-law of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides, donated the Giabra Pierides collection to the Foundation. Karageorghis's 2010 catalogue also records the gift as that of the collection bearing the couple's name.
NicosiaClio TriantafyllidesSolon A. TriantafyllidesGeorge Giabra PieridesNefeli Giabra PieridesMatoian 2004Karageorghis 2010, p. 9
- 2002The Museum of the George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides Collection opened on the Foundation's premises in the 1936 former Bank of Cyprus administrative building on Faneromeni Square, with Karageorghis's catalogue Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collection of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides (442 catalogue entries, 16 contributing specialists).
- 2004The Foundation published F. G. Maier's Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia) in its guide series; Lefki Michaelidou is named as series editor.
Franz Georg MaierLefki MichaelidouCostoula SclavenitisMaier 2004, p. 112
- June 2013After the wind-down of Laiki Bank, the Foundation absorbed the operations of the former Laiki Bank Cultural Centre and took over management of the Pierides Museum in Larnaca. The Bank's own page describes this as management, on the Bank's behalf, of the Trust between the Bank and the Pierides Foundation; where object ownership sits is not stated.
NicosiaDemetrios Zeno Pierides
People
12 peopleStaff and members · 6
- Maria Iacovoudirector (1987–1997) · Director · worked for itSection n.d., p. 21987–1997
- Andreas Patsalidespresident (from 1997) · PresidentBrun 1997, p. 91997
- Costoula SclavenitisEnglish-text reviser (1997 Khirokitia guide); designer and copy-editor (2004 Palaipaphos guide) · worked with1997–2004
- Marie-Lise Mitsouprepared the edition of its Khirokitia guide1997
- Eleni Zapitistaff (2002–2019) · author of the Foundation's coin catalogues; research partner of L. Michaelidou · worked for itSome Enigmatic Sequences on…Masons' marks in Cyprus:…2002–2019
- Lefki Michaelidouother · series editor of the BCCF guide series (Guide to Palaipaphos); editor of a volume on the Holy Bishopric of Morphou (Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus)Maier 2004, p. 112
Donors and lenders · 4
- Clio Triantafyllidesdonor (1999–1999) · gave objectsMatoian 20041999
- George Giabra Pieridesgave objects1999
- Nefeli Giabra Pieridesco-named in the 'George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides Collection' · gave objects1999
- Solon A. Triantafyllidesdonor (1999–1999) · gave objectsMatoian 20041999
Sellers and consignors · 1
- Petros Kolokasidesseller (1986–1986) · sold objectsKarageorghis 19871986
Others connected · 1
- Alain Le Brun1997
Objects
The George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides collection of Cypriot antiquities (Mycenaean pictorial pottery, Cypro-Archaic limestone sculpture, Red Polished ware; marble portrait of Commodus, cat. 292)
via Clio Triantafyllides1999Matoian 2004
On Ancient Cyprus
4 pagesSources
- 1.V. Matoian (2004). “Review of Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collection of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides”. Syria 81, 301-304.
- 2.David Frankel (2006). “Review of Karageorghis and Vanchugov (Odessa), Souyoudzoglou-Haywood (Dublin) and Karageorghis (Giabra Pierides) catalogues”. American Journal of Archaeology 110, 519-520. Online
- 3.V. Karageorghis (ed.) (2010). Cypriote Antiquities in the Phylactou Collection. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
- 4.A. Le Brun (1997). Khirokitia: A Neolithic Site. Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
- 5.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
- 6.Cyprus High Commission Cultural Section (n.d.). Speaker biography, Maria Iacovou (event at the National Archives, Kew). p. 2.
- 7.Philippa M. Steele (ed.) (2013). Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- 8.V. Karageorghis (1987). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1986”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 111.
- 9.“Some Enigmatic Sequences on Salaminian Coins”.
- 10.Masons' marks in Cyprus: preliminary considerations.