Ur Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005d | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | 2sympathy in the difficult task of gathering, arranging, guarding the works of ancient art and presenting them at their best for their human interest and beauty. Never forgetting his beginning as an Americanist, he supported and encouraged several Expeditions in Central, North and South America and Alaska. But his keen interest extended to many other fields also. Particularly as regards the South Seas and Western African regions it was chiefly bu his efforts that important collections were built up which especially in the matter of the decorative and representative arts are of the very first class. The Chinese section in the Charles Curtiss Harrison Hall, was his care and pride, and best expresses his personality. The large frescoes of the Tang Dynasty are the first of their kind exhibited in this country. Day after day the students from art schools find in this room models and inspiration. In the classical fields of [?Crete?], Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and the Mediterranean sections, the Museum had long traditions, which were kept alive by Dr. Gordon and received fresh impulse [?from him?]. The Joint Expedition at Ur of the Chaldees, and the Museum Expedition at Beisan, with their important historical results, are well known to the readers of the American Journal of Archaeology. The first Expedition in which the University Museum joined hands with the British Museum, has already achieved its fifth campaign. Both were strongly advocated by Dr. Gordon. The publication of material from former expeditions in Mesopotamia were not neglected. Over twenty two volumes in the Babylonian section have been published [or are printing] under his Directorship, presenting to the public the choice material from the Nippur collections. There is a growing demand at home and abroad for the |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005d |
| Page Number: | 005d |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1927 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | annotated, 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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