Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4411 |
| Transcription: | [Page 1]2the only fragment of diorite head - We had some trouble while dividing the objects, which are actually on exhibition and will stay in the show cases for some times - We excepted from the division a few very important copper reliefs, for which we understand that a correspondence is still in progress between the two Museums and which should be reserved to your judgment.The while business was very satisfactory, Mr. Woolley, Hall, Smith and Gadd were all very friendly and I am satisfied to work with them. Thanks to Mr. Woolley, I had good quarters near[Page 1]Neuilly S./Seine3 rue de Chartres July 21.24Dear Dr. Gordon,I am just back from London where I spent about a week. The material from the last year campain [sic] at Ur and Tell el-Obeid has been fairly divided between the two Museums and I hope to your satisfaction. It was my luck to draw some good single pieces like the best panel [?] of six bulls in a copper frame, the small lime stone relief of the lion headed eagle on a bull and |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060a |
| Page Number: | 060a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | DoF, handwritten, Legrain |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
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| Leon Legrain | Father Legrain was born in France, ordained as a priest there in 1904, and studied at the Catholic University of Lille and at the Collegium Appolinare in Rome. Assyriology professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris until WWI, he was then an interpreter in the war. He became curator of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1920 and retired in 1952. A specialist in cuneiform, he was the epigraphist at Ur during the 1924-25 and 1925-26 field seasons. He published widely on texts and engraved seals, both in his time before the Penn Museum and after. He published seals and sealings from Ur (Ur Excavations volume 10), some of the tablets (Ur Excavations Texts volume 3) and was slated to publish a volume on the figurines from the site. His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website. Even after his two years at the site of Ur, Legrain played an integral role in the excavations. Not only did he research, publish, and display artifacts in the Penn Museum, but he was also the Museum's representative in the division of objects from Ur conducted almost every year in London. Legrain's letters about this process are very interesting, often in a more personal tone than Woolley's. In fact, many of his colleagues declared that Legrain was particularly entertaining and jovial, if cynical. His photographs at Ur are some of the only images we have of daily life, with many pictures of local Iraqis. |
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