Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082d | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F002-082d-1926.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4453 |
| Transcription: | Philadelphia share with Ur Excavation, I do not think it very correct to propose the Museum to undertake another dig. So it stands. I hope to call at Kish and see Langdon when we leave here - the dig will be over after the 6 of March. Packing takes another week. I will travel home probably over the Nairn back to Jerusalem, spend a week or ten days in North Africa, and be in London toward the middle of April. The question of publishing will be discussed. I have a good collection of texts. Woolley asked me in any case to leave it in his hands, he would have a duplicate made by a photographer for his private use and further progress of the dig. It is very natural and useful. At the same time, I do not like too much that all the Philadelphia share of the work should be left in one hand without a definite program of publications since I never saw any copy or translation of the text recovered the two first years. I [?seems?] to much always to give without receiving our due there of honour and helping the next partner to grow fat on it. So I will bring back my copies and talk it over to you after the London interview- Health keeping good, I am happy at the prospect of coming home- Please give my regards to all in the Museum and believe my yours. Sincerely,L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082d |
| Page Number: | 082d |
| 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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