Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | [second page]will probably acknoledge his genuine paternity in the Tell El-Obeid \"discovery\".Dr. Ch. has left us after six weeks. Our party is reduced to three, and we feel almost lonely. A sound government always like opposition. I did. The third dynasty of Ur, the Larsa Kings, old man Kurigalzu, the strange ruler with the strange name; Sin balatsu iqbi, and the familiar Nabucho, and Nabonidus have now no secrets for me. I recognize their bricks at a glance even without looking at the text. And all the Arab diggers shout with joy the venerable names of Ur Engur and Ishme Dagan. They are full of contempt for such a recent fellow as Nabonidus, too well known and who moreover brings them no backshish.Despite all the trails of a new field, in a new land, in a difficult mixed expedition, I am rather glad of that new experience under the guidance[Third page]of a most expert differ. I am conscient to have done my best to help him. And you will probably detect some traces of that collaboration - I understand that owing to the money running short, the work will probably stop at the end of January. In that case, I will probably take the long way coming home, and if possible visit Susa, Babylon, Kish and Karkemish before sailing for the new country. I will likely spend a week or more in England and talk the new season over with the Curators of the British Museum, and show them any copy of the new inscriptions.This letter will not reach you before the end of January or even later. It is nearly impossible to receive your answer. But in case you decide to send my any instructions, I will call at the American consul in Baghdad and Beyrouth on my way. You have |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069b |
| Page Number: | 069b |
| 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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