Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 079b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | way - But in Bagdad I was assured that the Palmyra road was unsafe and closed. Here more than anywhere else it is hard to know the whole bare truth. Anyhow our driver went back five day later over the same way. I visited Ktesiphon and Babylon on my way to Ur. The new wing was scarcely finished when I arrived. The new assistant and the lady manager are quite good society and we all work for the best. I brought here [?your?] two books of Miss G. Bell presented to the Joint Expedition. They were well received- I paid in Bagdad my first visit to the famous author of the books and delivered your message which was gracefully accepted. You heard perhaps the famous rumor of Dr. Ed Chiera being attached to Angora government as chief of the secret police. The news came from those busy bodies of the League of Geneva and Bagdad was very much disturbed by it. We expect the visit of two good Americans Dr. Albright and Dr. Dougherty successor of Dr. Chiera- I paid a visit to the American Consul in Bagdad and mentioned your intention to finish the HIllah question - deposit of goods by the Nippur expedition- Did you write to him in the same sense? I told it to Woolley too. And we perhaps will go together to see what may[Note written vertically on left side of page] be saved- Yours sincerely, Leon Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 079b |
| Page Number: | 079b |
| 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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