Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 087a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | University Museum Report on the 1925-1926 Campaign at Ur June 8th 1926Dear Dr. GordonOn my way back from Ur Philadelphia, I left Bagdad on March 22nd. Work had stopped at Ur on the 13th and the packing of 46 antiquities cases on the 19th. I went alone with a large convoy of the Nairn County over Palmyra, Tripoli, and Beyrout- Mr. Woolley was delivering a lecture on the 26th on this year campaign and planned to visit Kerkuk and Aleppo- the two assistants Mrs. Whitburn and Mallowan were advised to travel their own way to Aleppo. From Beyrouth the S.S. \"Pierre Loti\" brought me to Marseille on April 1st, a three weeks trip enabled me to visit North Africa from Algiers to Tunis. I arrived in London on April 26th and left on May 9th- I was very well received by Sir Fr. Kenyon, Dr. Hall, Mrs. S. Smith and Gadd. We talked over the plan of publication of the Ur Excavation. Vol. I on Tell El Obeid is almost ready- Vol. II. will describe the Ziggurat of Ur. The first volume of Cuneiform Texts from Ur will include all the Building Inscriptions. In a free discussion between Smith, Gadd, and myself, we agreed about 5 points, which were drafted and handed over to Dr. Hall for further use: a)- The number of texts collected during the four campaigns at Ur is sufficient to make a volume of \"Building Inscriptions\". b)- This will be a join Volume by Smith, Gadd, and Legrain c)- Transliteration, transcription and minimum notes will accompany the reproduction of the cuneiform Texts. d)- Photographs of the most important Texts will be added to handcopies[Page 1] |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 087a |
| Page Number: | 087a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1926 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | handwritten, Legrain, publication L |
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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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