Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 018b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F003-018b-1932.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4962 |
| Transcription: | [page two of letter]over a good many--seven trays--Ur tablets of the same time and content, as the ones I have in Philadelphia. With the result that they will be packed and sent to our Museum for the convenience of the work--and besides there is a box of Ur tablets, from the last winter, which will be sent unpacked to the Museum, for the same purpose. Plenty of work ahead.I will be in Paris before the 20th, I hope, and will call on Scheil and Thureau Dangin. They wish for contribution to Rev. dAssyrio-logie [??not sure of spelling], and I will probably suggest the reconstructed Ur stela at the Museum.[page three of letter]I had a no[abbreviation for number] of the Gazette des Beaux Arts addressed to you: \"on the \"Archaic Sumerian art\" which is evidently the last word on Ur and the bottom of the land.I booked my passage on the \"Rochambeau\" on Dec. 28th. She is a steady old boat, but slow and takes the Southern trail--Will reach New York, I think, Jan. 7. --Anyhow I am saving a little money.Please give my regards to all at the Museum. Merry Xmas and happy New Year.Yours sincerely,L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 018b |
| Page Number: | 018b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | handwritten, Legrain, 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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