Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMPHILADELPHIAPhiladelphia, Sept. 10. 1924.Dear Doctor Gordon,In your letter of June 12th. 1924 you suggested that while Mr. Woolley was unpacking the Ur collections in the British Museum and would need some help in classifying them, it would be a good plan for me to arrange with the British Museum to put in a while working on these collections. And also that it would be in order then to make a division between the British Museum and this Museum.Accordingly I called on the 1st of July on Mr. Woolley and was introduced by him to Mr. H. Hall, head of the department, and to Mr. Sidney Smith, his assistant. Mr. Gadd, the second assistant, the cuneiform expert of the last Ur Campaign was on his vacation.The collections were scattered in five or six different locals of the British Museum, partly unpacked, partly under repair, partly in the show cases of a temporary exhibition that [word was inserted above text] to open the following week in the lower room (Balawat bronze gates) of the Assyrian section.The unpacked portion included: bronze boss relief bulls, mosaic flowers, bricks, tablets, pottery, two visible not exhibited door sockets.The portion under repairâa) Great Russel Square work shope[phrase underlined] The copper and bronze material was under careful chemical treatment and reconstruction at the hands of three experts. Delicate and oxydized fragments of the bull's head and body, and of the copper covered columns were bathing[arrow hand-drawn to indicate following words should be inserted after \"bronze material\" above] and also drums of the mosaic columns, |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063a |
| Page Number: | 063a |
| 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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