Ur Notebook Scan -- 1936 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 020b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1936 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F003-020b-1936.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4967 |
| Transcription: | me-and Sir Leonard Woolley was also of this opinion--that you have possibly shifted some of the cat. entries in doing the work, & that this might account for differences.But when I examine the line plates and make a few tests with the numbers shown in the \"Index to the Hand-drawings,\" I find that, for instance, where No. 340 is entered alongside a motif, it is, in the case of four motifs, definitely wrong. I will show you these on a separate sheet. Before checking this index throughout, I should be grateful if you can tell me if these discrepancies are due to changes in numbering made by you in the course of the work, & if so, if you have a list of such changes that you can send me. Of course, I must go to Press with this vol. as soon as possible. You will understand that it is a long & difficult task for anyone who has not studied these impressions in detail, to substitute a right entry for a wrong one. So please forgive me for bothering you.Yours very truly,[??Joan Joshua??] |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1936 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 020b |
| Page Number: | 020b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1936 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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