Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4973 |
| Transcription: | to the dig and cursed apart me all the cuneiform signs of the world. There are over 700 of them. I have copied all the historical inscriptions and arranged them in chronological order on separate leaves. My copies are ready for publication. I have translated them in the same order on another series of leaves and I keep adding new drawings and new translations every day as the dig provides new material- The two books form a useful and really necessary instrument for further researches- Woolley does appreciate it and begins to be anxious for publication. II The more so because the Baghdad museum has begun selling his duplicates to make money. Among them are original pieces. and it seems very silly to spend so much money on the dig , to let afterwards any dealer or amateur get your best pieces before you have time to publish them- I think that Woolley begins to feel the pinch and has been writing official notes on the subject to Miss Bell and to the two museums. IIHe asked me to stop in London in April to discuss the points with Smith and Gadd. In any case I feel I have done my best and will await further developments.When you will receive this letter we will be near the end- Money is more abundant this |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036b |
| Page Number: | 036b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1926 |
| 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 |
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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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