Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036c | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4974 |
| Transcription: | 2<L. LEGRAINUR EXPEDITIONIRAQ>year, and W. expect to work till 6th of March. We will leave about the middle of March. I will go straight across the desert to Jerusalem and from there to Tunis and Algier before returning to Marseille Paris and London. You have my Paris address - 3 rue de Chartres, Neuilly sur Seine. We have not yet received the much expected Victrola and the thirty records, but the thought of it has cheered up extremely. It was a kind thought and a good heart who devised the scheme-We had our Xmas dinner in good English style with one turkey, one goose, four ducks, two plum puddings, six bottle of Champagne, one of golden sherry, two of Vermuth and no end of Whisky. Don't print that in the Museum Journal please. I like to leave them under the impression of our hardships-.Another good improvement was the wire netting at the door and windows which keep the flies effectively out. The white ants still pierce the walls hunting for books and paper their favorite food, but we drown them in kerosine.II Have you ever received my paper written on the boat crossing the ocean and mailed from Rome |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036c |
| Page Number: | 036c |
| 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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