Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 037a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4976 |
| Transcription: | <Thackeray Hotel>April 30th 1926Dear Miss Mc Hugh,Your long letter has just arrived, full of news. Thank you. I am afraid I shall not be in time for the opening of the new wing about the middle of May.I have spent a week in London and saw all the officials at the British Museum. Wolley has not yet arrived. Sir Frederic K. was very gracious. He expects W. at the beginning of May. While waisting I will go North and visit friends at Hull.I had a conference with Gadd and Smith about publications. We agreed about six \"recommandations and wrote them down. 1°) There is enough material for one volume including all the building inscriptions (historical) . 2°) It should be a joint publication of Smith, Gadd and myself. 3°) Transliteration, translation and minimum notes should accompany the cuneiform text. 4°) a photograph of the [? most ?] important pieces should be added. 5°) the form of paper recommanded should be the cuneiform Texts of the British museum (for size). 6°) Printing should |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 037a |
| Page Number: | 037a |
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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