Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F002-061b-1924.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4414 |
| Transcription: | [Page 2]2he has an exhibitiona)- a hollow bronze Cupid of the Greco Egyptian period. Arms missing except a piece of the left- fine head. Eyes in gold inlaid- no cleaning attempted, but the metal looks sound. Height 0,50 cent. m- time of Cleopatra? Perhaps originating from Denderah.b)- A basalt bust of a Queen (?) - Saitic Period Headdress: the vulture or hawks wings covering the whole head. The wig has large waves behind that are rather unusual. My sketch is from memory. The price about $(or [British pound symbol]!) 3500. Actual height about 35/40 cent m.[drawing appears on side of page][Page 3]at Bing rue St. Georges Mr. Nahman has on exhibition outside a statue of Ramses II, that you saw in Egypt, a small collection of limestone reliefs and heads very likely originating from Dr. Fisher's Excavation in Memphis and stolen probably by workmen; this is [word crossed out] a personal impression. There are severed heads or portraits, animal heads, an unusual hippopotamus goddess holding one breast.At Feuardent, 4 rue de Louvois - near Bibliotheque Nationale- I saw a remarkable diorite head from Tello- a duplicate of the famous Gudea head with turban lately acquired in a[drawing appears at bottom of page] |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061b |
| Page Number: | 061b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | acquisitions, drawing, handwritten, Legrain |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| 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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