Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | Ur- Junction.- Iraq- Jan. 3rd. 1925Dear Dr. Gordon.I beg you would believe wedrank your health in good style on Xmas and Near Year's eve. Despite the distance, the desert and the strenuous work we omitted none of the rites. Turkey, plum pudding and real Scotch wiskey. That is some help to archeology. I am up every day at half past six, and go to bed at half past ten, which is rather a change. I begin to like the eternal dust and mud and eyewitness of this strange country.I could not very much improve on the reports of our eminent director and master mind C. L. Woolley. I am afraid I rather made too much of him, and I lately got in trouble with the Br. Mu. authorities. I hope you did not take too much at heart Dr. Hall's recri- mination. I have received from him a very nice letter and four pamphlets, for which I am very thankful, and the next number of the Museum Journal[Last Page]my Paris address, and I will keep writing while traveling. Dr. Fisher must be very busy in his section, I do not expect to see him in Beishan, and I will not stop in Palestine but sail straight for France.The country around is safe and peaceful in the surrounding of Ur . with some trouble not very far from it. We had a cold spell, and ice one inch thick in the tub left in the court yard- not being too rich in wood and coal, we use the bitumen, recovered in the excavation. We have to thank Naboni dus for this invaluable and unexpensive way of warming up at Ur of the Chaldees. An extra blanket at night is welcome for our windows have only shutters. Rain is not yet over and we wade up to the dig in greasy gum boots. At last, mosquitos and sand flies are dead and we are safe from that pest.We had a good many visitors from Baghdad and Nasriah, English born and natives all very keen on archeology. It is a real comfort - well the war is still on and I hope to resist to the end.[Vertical text added] Please give my kind regards to all and believe me, yours sincerely, L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069a |
| Page Number: | 069a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1925 |
| 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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