Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082c | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4452 |
| Transcription: | person, but to a regular staff backed by a strong financial support. In that case they would have to suscribe to a contract of three years of dig at least - and the head of the Expedition ought to be according to her views not the Assyriologue but a trained man preferably an architect - the supervision of Langdon at Kish is not looked favorably upon by her - the Ur expedition at Ur, of the German expedition at Babylon is her ideal. She would with disregard to any [?theoeretic?] claims favor and grant a concession to any nation fulfilling such conditions - she would not object to the germans excavating Warka, where they have dug six months in 1913 under Herr Jordan.I did not show your letter to Woolley as it is confidential, and you know some of my reasons why. But I showed him your first letter where you mention his good relations with the Turkish government. I had heard some remarks in Baghdad, and I do not think that English public here is much in favour of any double game- while you are fighting to provide money for |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082c |
| Page Number: | 082c |
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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