Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4423 |
| Transcription: | [page 3]letter of July 23, 1924 instructing me to call on Mr Woolley and on Sir Frederic Kenyon. It did not reach me in time in Paris and was not sent back to Phila anyhow the proposed division is over now. On board S.S Lotus, I found two letters forwaded by Miss J. McHugh, for which she will please, accept my thanks. She has very wisely answered to Mr Woolley. So far I do remember my conversation with Mr Woolley in London, it was agreed that we should meet in Bagdad Oct. 25th. He gave me the addresses of two hôtels, and some welcome indications how to get there TH Cook and sons and the \"Naim Cy?\" I had the impression that he prefered that we should travel independently, and I have no objection to such a scheme. Maybe I should have confirmed my intention. But you know that the decision came within a short time before sailing - I keep a due account of my - not personal - expensesYours sincerlyL. LegrainWill you please give my best regards to everyone in the museum. I certainly miss them. |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065b |
| Page Number: | 065b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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