Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F003-017b-1932.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4959 |
| Transcription: | [second page of letter]in charge the next morning. And of course Saturday is almost out of question. The weekend is a British institution.Anyhow they are very graceful to me, and work is progressing very satisfactorily. I first took in hand all the seal impressions on the fragments of clay jar stoppers. Fortunately the share of the Baghdad Museum is still here, and I was able to study and copy every piece before it will be returned. I made over 635 hand drawings, and after classifying them, there is nearly two hundred that have been selected for photographic reproduction. I include in it, the British Museums own collection, and having surveyed our share in the University Museum, I am satisfied that for that part of the work, I am up to the mark.I have started the second part of the work, which is a survey of all the[third page of letter]stone seals of Ur actually in the British Museum. --Baghdad share is unfortunately in Baghdad--Some have a plaster impression along with the stone, and some have none. So I am using plasticine and make my own impression, to be able to read them as I work along. But it is a slower process.When that will be over, I still intend to [??supervise??] the terra cottas of Ur in the Br. Mu. collections. But I need not tarry beyond taking notes and measures, while a good photograph will do justice to the best examples and I can dispense with hand drawings.--Here too the Baghdad lot is out of reach.At night I keep working on the Ur business texts, which are entrusted to University Museum, but of the 2000 which I have sorted as best, registered and classified, I have copied already one third. I brought these copies with me to show to Gadd and Smith, and they were very much interested with the first part which concerns the ritual offerings |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017b |
| Page Number: | 017b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| 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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