Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063c | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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Transcription: | Numeral 3 circled at top center of pageTHE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMPHILADELPHIAFâthe inscribed historical documents: bricks, barrels, door sockets or alabaster plaques. One missing fragment of the famous Nabuna'id barrel preserved for years in the British Museum has been recovered last year and inserted in the original barrel.G1[numeral 1 is superscript]âThe best document from Tell El-Obeid: Gold scarab, diorite foundation tablet, inscription on a vase fragment, lime stone plaque showing eagle on the back of a human headed bull, bronze dagger with lapis lazuli head, and other small monuments in shell, stone, and metal.G2[numeral2 is superscript]âStone and metal small objects, among which a fine fragment of a diorite head (Gudea period)H1[numeral 1 is superscript]âThe best terra cottas[sic] reliefsH2[numeral 2 is superscript]âThe best gold and semiprecious stone jewels and necklaces.IâPlans, sections, elevations of the Ur ziggurat.Kâ[ditto marks under plans, sections, elevations] and water colour reconstruction of the Tel El-Obeid temple,âterrace, gate, and staircase with porch, columns, lions, and bull friezes.[what looks like an ampersand handwritten in center of page]Division of the materialâI mentioned your intentions to Mr. Woolley, but as head of the Joint Expedition, Mr. Woolley thought that the division was not incumbent to himâMr. Hall listened to the request, but leaving for his vacations the next few days, he referred me to Mr. S. Smith. Mr. S. Smith thought the proper man to do the division would be Mr. Gadd, who had been on the field and knew the material. |
Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063c |
Page Number: | 063c |
Project: | CU |
Date: | 1924 |
Author: | Leon Legrain |
Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
Crowdsource Tags: | bricks L, DoF, handwritten, jewelry L, Legrain, reliefs L, ziggurat L |
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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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