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Transcription: [page 2]from Cherbourg, on S.S. Orca, for New York on June 6th. But I shall know better in a couple of days. -In reply to your second letter of May 5th I called on Mr. R. Haase, 10 rue St. Georges, yesterday May 16th. I saw the head and the statue both originating from [?Tello?[ and dating of about BC 2200 - 2300. The statute is of the \"stumpy sort, head missing- standing figure with clasped hands- some damaged by fire. Probably no beard, hair hanging on the back. Fringed shawl passing over left shoulder. Inscriptions on the back. \"To the god min-dar, for the life of[?Ibi-Lin?] king of Ur, offered by [?Ur-Migrise?] the priest -\"- chips broken off the hands, the left foot and some parts of the surface- Interesting but not very beautiful\" The head- black diorite- Classical type of Gudea, with Wollen cap. No beard, no hair - nose preserved- chip gone of the chin- Small size. You can hold it in your two hands. It is a duplicate- much smaller- of the large, diorite head I saw last year at Mr [? Feuardent Freies?] 4 rue Louvis Paris. This last, I understand is still for sale- There is moreover a complete statue of Gudea, from Tello- same find- with a large inscription, for sale at [?Gejou?], but at an enormous price of [?pound symbol?] 25.000. I have not seen it- I will go and have a look before sailing Westword-Respectfully and Sincerely Yours L. Legrain     
Media Title: Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073b     
Page Number: 073b     
Project: CU     
Date: 1925     
Author: Leon Legrain     
Penn Archival Box Number: 7     
Penn Archival Folder Number: 2     
Crowdsource Tags: acquisitions, 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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