Sub-archive of the Ministry of the Presidency of the Government (1960-1971)
The correspondence of the Antiquities and Restoration Service, which was subordinate to the Ministry of the Presidency of the Government pursuant to Presidential Decree 634/1960 (Government Gazette, Series I, Issue 143), is kept at the HAAR. In 1966, the Service was renamed into the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Restoration (Government Gazette, Series I, Issue 184). The Sub-archive is classified up to the year 1966 by thematic categories following a chronological order. Each year includes all current cases handled by each Ephorate of Antiquities.
- Index
Thematic Index until 1966
- Antiquities: mobile antiquities, random finds, seizures, antiquities in private collections, exchanges.
- Excavations: excavation activity of the Archaeological Service, foreign archaeological schools and the Archaeological Society. Exhibitions, photos, imprints.
- Archaeological sites: management of archaeological sites throughout Greece.
- Buildings - Houses - Guardhouses - Historical Residences: building permits, property expropriations.
- General
- Byzantine and Medieval Monuments: monuments and archaeological sites of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period.
- Donations - Books - Casts: donations, books and periodicals of the Archaeological Service, plaster copies of antiquities.
- Approvals – Prepayments – Procurement: records of crediting and management of financial resources.
- Laws - Circulars - Decrees: legislation concerning antiquities and the wider public sector.
- Museums: creation of collections and construction of museums.
- Permits: visits to archaeological sites, photography and filming permits at museums and archaeological sites, postcards.
- Tours: inspections of archaeological sites throughout Greece.
- Leases - Buildings: rental of premises for the deposition of collections, rental of buildings of the Archaeological Service to private citizens.
- Designations: protection of historic listed monuments.
- Permits for the export of contemporary artworks.
- Content
Documents, maps, drawings, photographs, catalogues, protocol registers, correspondence registers.