Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 087b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4461 |
| Transcription: | e)- The form and size of paper recommanded are the same as used in the exiting collection: 'The Cuneiform Texts of the British Museum\". I could not meet Mr. Woolley, who did not reach London as early as intended. The second week, the general strike made it a necessity to leave London as soon as possible. The letter of credit of £.80 which he gave me in Bagdad, helped up to London. For the rest of the journey I drew on my private letter from the University Museum, as shown in the annexed balance account.I sailed from Havre May 26th on the SS France, due in New York on June 2nd, and arrived in Philadelphia on June 4th.Mr. Woolley's monthly reports of the Excavations have proved how satisfactory was the work done, while discovering he proper house of the Moon Goddess- all the new inscriptions have been copied day by day and translated- Texts and transcriptions are classed in chronological order. The British Museum Assyriologists and myself have agreed to exchange for control, our respective portion of the work in the forecoming volume of texts, as soon as each is satisfied with his translations.The Catalogue of Objects discovered in the present campaign 1925-1926, includes the Numbers Ur 6000 to 6977. The new photographs form a series Ns 501 to 700.Yours very sincerely,L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 087b |
| Page Number: | 087b |
| 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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