Ur Notebook Scan -- 1933 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 019b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1933 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | Besides Mr Woolley has put apart for work, a box of seal impressions on clay. That material is still undivided, common property of the three Museums. I understand that Dr Jordan will claim his share after publication. In the same way, twelve trays of tablets of the third Ur Dynasty will be sent to Phila, to be studied and published with the portion already there. I was well received - as usual - by the Director Dr Hill and by curators and friends Sydney Smith and Gadd. Thursday I found Woolley and spent the next to days in his office reading proofs of the chapter on seals, to be part of the larger volume on the cemetery. The volume is nearly finished. The plates are made. The coloured plates are very pleasant. There will be one volume of text and one of plates and every one is anxious to see the new volume out. It is full of informations and fine picture. I had dinner, lunch and tea with all of them in succession and we exausted the subject of publications.There are other causes of trouble in the new attitude of the Iraq Government and press, as I understand. But you will know already by official communication. The prospect of further dig is uncertain. I even met professor Langdon and we had a good talk, while drinking ale a little above 3.2. He was shocked to hear that Prof. Chiera was dead, and also Dougherty which news he heard for the first time. Mr Glenville who lectured last year at Phila, leaves the museum to accept a position of Professor at London University. He wants to be remembered to Mr Gunn.The London fogs have not yet materialised. But I take no chances and gargle with carbolic acid every |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1933 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 019b |
| Page Number: | 019b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | DoF, handwritten, Legrain, publication L, tablets 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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