Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 078a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4441 |
| Transcription: | Nov. 15th. 25Dear Dr. Gordon,Despite all the troubles in Syria, I am here all right and passed across the desert without incidents. I landed in Beyrouth Saturday Oct. 31st and left Sunday afternoon Nov. 1st by the Eastern \transport over Homs, Palmyra, Kebeisa, Ramadi, and Bagdad. We were four day on the trip and spent the first night in Tripoli avoiding Damascus and the troubled area. The road along the northern coast is interesting cutting through tunnels along high rocks. Business is lively in every place. Commercial travelers, Swedes, Italian, Levantine trying to outdo each other. White Horse Scotch Whisky advertise in every hotel. Strange isn't it. The mountain track over the Lebanon from Tripoli to Palmyra or rather Homs is very rough, a litter of basalt and volcanic boulders that nobody takes trouble to clear from the way. We had a quiet passage. No armoured car, no soldiers. I stopped at Homs to buy pistachios in the bazaar and no one said a word - Of course you know Palmyra and the gorgeous |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 078a |
| Page Number: | 078a |
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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