Costakis and Leto Severis Foundation

Private collection of Cypriot antiquities (Neolithic/Chalcolithic to medieval, including Attic vases), catalogued by V. Karageorghis in 1999 and in a second edition in 2010; in 2010 given on long-term loan to the Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia. No object count was read. (2010)

Karageorghis & Severis 2010

1. 1999
   First edition of Karageorghis's catalogue Ancient Cypriote Art in the Severis Collection, published by the Foundation (Kapon Editions, Athens); exhausted soon after.

   AthensVassos KarageorghisCostakis SeverisKarageorghis & Severis 2010Dissinger 2017

2. 2004
   The Foundation, with the Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, published Karageorghis's Ancient Cypriote Art in the Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, funded by the Severis Foundation rather than the Leventis Foundation because of D. Severis's links with Geneva; he is named president.

   GenevaVassos KarageorghisDemosthenis C. SeverisHermary 2005Dissinger 2017

3. 2009–2010
   The collector Demosthenis Severis decided at the end of 2009 to give the whole collection on long-term loan to the new Constantine Leventis Wing of the Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia; the second edition (2010) added a supplement of objects omitted in 1999. The second edition's copyright is the A. G. Leventis Foundation's, which also covered much of the cost.

   NicosiaDemosthenis C. SeverisVassos KarageorghisKarageorghis & Severis 2010

4. 2014
   Hardy used the Severis catalogues as data in a study of the antiquities trade of the Cypriot civil war, quoting Karageorghis's 'silent accord' passage in the 1999 catalogue and his statement that groups of vases were 'quite possible' from Marki Davari, 'thoroughly looted' when the collection was formed. These are Hardy's reading of the catalogue, not a finding about the Foundation.

   Vassos KarageorghisHardy 2014