Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4972 |
| Transcription: | <L. LEGRAINUR EXPEDITIONIRAQ>Jan. 18th 1926Dear Miss McHugh, Thanks for your long letter so full of details. Time is passing terribly quick here. Scarcely time to shave and wash for dinner. Work after dinner most of the time up to midnight. As you will see in Woolley's report the dig is quite good and gives us many valuable objects after the wild hunt for Dungi's palace on the South end of the temple area, and finding just a cemetery on the top of presargonic ground, we have moved nearer to the old ziggurat. This time we have uncovered the shrine or house of Ningal the wife of moon god. It is a most complete temple with enclosure, gates, court, altars, shrine room, base of statue, steps leading to it, pedestals of many - gone - statues and stelae. No end of statues, stelae, vases, dishes in stone, alabaster, clay, and a lot of tablets which make my despair. I have just time enough to brush, stick together catalogue, inspect and pack away on a ledge, till the final packing in March. Many a day I could not leave my office to run |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036a |
| Page Number: | 036a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1926 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | handwritten, Legrain |
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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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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