Omeka Title: PA-CU-B07-F002-063d-1924.jpg     
Omeka ID: 4419     
Transcription: Numeral 4 handwritten in center top of pageMr. Gadd being on his vacation, I was advised to come back the following week, when he would return. This is what I did, visiting in the mean time friends in Belgium.The following week, I met Mr. S. Smith and Gadd. Mr. Smith, who had talked it over with Mr. Hall, suggested that certain important pieces like the reconstructed full relief [word bronze crossed out, and the word copper written in above] bull, the flat embossed relief copper bull, should be left out of the actual division, as some correspondence was going on the subject between the two museums.Besides, Mr. Woolley's opinion was that so far as the British Museum has spent time and money on the reconstruction of the bronze bull, this sample ought to remain [word to crossed out] in the British Museum, while a second copy[underlined] just as good of the same bull, but not unpacked, cleaned, or restored, should be sent to the U of P Museum, that would provide for the restoration.The rest of the collection[underlined] 1) as presented in the Exhibition[underlined] cases—2) or preserved in the Second story room[underlined] opposite the curator's office—3) or even partly or not at all unpacked in the basement of the British Museum has been divided in three days work by Mr. Gadd and myself—as best as possible.Two[word underlined] objects of the same type and value being paired[word underlined], we agreed to choose according to the different needs of our respective Museums—or each would choose in turn—Or in case of an unusually desirable or unique piece, we did toss a coin. [In the lot of the Univ. Mus. are the best frieze of 6 lime stone bulls, the pannel[sic] of the eagle on a bull's back, the fragment of a diorite head][brackets inserted by Mr. LeGrain]Each piece attributed to the Univ. Mus. was marked with a pencilled P on the object and on the card index ofhandwritten number 5 circled at center bottom of page     
Media Title: Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063d     
Page Number: 063d     
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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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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