Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017c | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F003-017c-1932.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4960 |
| Transcription: | [fourth page of letter]to the temple of Ur, at the time of Ibi Sis [??not sure of name]. The following part which treats of metals: gold, silver, copper lead etc, promises to be just as rich in details--and there are more parts to come.Woolley has decided to send to the University Museum another consignement[misspelled in text] of tablets of the same time and import just discovered last year. So I will have plenty to do, to bring to terms the Ur publications. But I feel that I am \"out of the rough.\"] [handwritten bracket at end of last sentence] My first contribution will be a study of the seals, from the Royal Cemetery, to appear as a chapter of Wolley's[name misspelled in text] book on the same. But if he is paying for archaeological publications out of the Rockefeller funds, the cuneiform texts incomb. to the Museums, and the Joint Expedition funds.This week I relaxed somewhat, and tendered a little dinner party to the Museum collegues[misspelled in text], and we all enjoyed the event. I will call on Hill--which I have not done yet--next week.Miss M. L. Baker left Friday for Triest and the East, very much thrilled and glad to get warmer.I have a touch of cold which I am [remaining text is written lengthwise of the page]nursing indoor on this very gloomy London Sunday. Yours sincerely My Best regards to all at the Museum L. Legraine. |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017c |
| Page Number: | 017c |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | handwritten, Legrain, publication L, tablets L |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| 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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