Ur Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005e | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | 3 Numbers of the Museum Journal, the Quarterly Magazine which he originated in 1910. The two first pages of the first number of the Journal where he expressed his ideas about: \" A new departure, the growth of the Museum, Reorganization.\" are worth reading. They contain a far sighted program to which the big changes brought about in the world by the war have given a strange consecration. When we realize how leading foreign institutions like the British Museum and the Louvre organize more and more an intelligent and popular service and guidance of the public through their collections, we can only admire how the same program was ripe in the mind of Dr. Gordon as early as 1910. His ambition was a service not only interesting to the specialist but profitable to the public. He kept faithful to it. [<stike> His ambition was a service not only interesting to the specialist but profitable to the public. The last important act of his Directorship was </strike.] The opening in May 1926 of the Eckley Brinton Coxe Junior wing of the Museum, with some of the finest and unique collections from Egypt, Assyria, Ur of the Chaldees, and Beisan, was the last important art of his Directorship.L. LegainFeb 18 1927 |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005e |
| Page Number: | 005e |
| 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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