Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F002-082a-1926.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4450 |
| Transcription: | Feb. 16th 1926Dear Dr. GordonThe house has just been flooded- we have been through one of the worst storm of the season. Roofs leeking. Everyone busy piling the bedding and rugs and valuable property on the tables. All tubs, basins, empty tins requisitioned to collect the water from roof and walls. The court in a few minutes was a pond - the staff and men dripping wet were jumping about with spades trying with mud and timber to build a dam and stop the on rush of flood outside. All enjoyed the excitement- Now the rain has stopped. The ground is absorbing it slowly. The house look a mess like the following day after battle. We seat where we can, smoking, drinking liquor to get a little warmth, and writing home since work is impossible and there is nothing else to do.Even the Victrola had its share, but we wiped box and records carefully and put on some of the best Jazz to cheer up a bit- Thanks ever so much. It was awfully kind of you to[Note appears vertically written on left side]I heard that Fisher is down with Malaria but is doing better |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082a |
| Page Number: | 082a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1926 |
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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