Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 084b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | [Page 3] Woolley's lecture in Bagdad was fixed on Friday, 26th after which he proposed to visit [?Kamikin?] in company of Mrs. K. K. and to go to Aleppo [?Der es Zor?] on his yearly visit. He will not be back in London before the 20th of April. I propose to be there at the same time. His account in bank being rather low he could give me a letter of credit only for £ 80 and propose to give me another one in London. But I have credit enough from the Museum not to trouble about it. We found Prof. Langdon sick with Jaundice in Bagdad. McKay alone will do the division with Miss G. Bell- Kish this year has given poor results, painted pottery and 175 very old tablets - Langdon talks of leaving Kish for a new dig at [?Lankereh?] (Larsa). He has[Final page] a hard time to find money in England. Prof. R.P. Dougherty who succeeds Clay in Yale - is the annual Prof. of the Amer. School in Bagdad. I heard that with the support of the Yale University e wants to undertake the excavation of Warka (-Erech) the largest ruin in the South. I met him at the American Consul in Bagdad and we drank to his success. Woolley, when I left, was going on a visit to Hillah, Babylon and Kish and was ready to look over all the property left, by the Niffar Expedition in Hillah and to select whatever is good for Ur- In any case that will be a closed case.I am quite satisfied of this year's work and look forward with pleasure for a safe return in the Museum where I understand you prepare a wonderful chow in the New Wing - with friendly regards to all around you. Yours sincerely,L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 084b |
| Page Number: | 084b |
| 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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