Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4426 |
| Transcription: | Beyrouth Hotel Continental Oct. 21st 1924Dear Dr. GordonThe trip to Baghdad is proceeding very satisfactorily. I am sailing tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd at 8.30 AM. towards Damascus and the city of thousand and one nights across the desert. Hoping for the best! I did not stop in Egypt but arrived here on Oct. 11th by the Lotus, the same S.S. I boarded in Marseille. She stopped two days in Alexandria, one in Port Said, one in Jaffa.[Page 4] last Sunday by rail and road picking up an automobile at Baghdad. The trip across the Mountain was delightful, and the road just dangerous enough, to give you a thrill. I just begin to like archaeology in the field- the band in the Beyrouth Casino is all right, and the gin and mixed not bad. Limmel is just arrived this Tuesday night, 7 P.M. We spent the day in a convenient automobile ride to [?Djebail?] to visit Montel's excavation. Please give my regards to all and my love to some round about and believe me yours sincerely, L. Legain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067a |
| Page Number: | 067a |
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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