Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 037b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4977 |
| Transcription: | be made in London.Gadd and myself will exchange the copies and translations of texts we made respectively - He the first and 2nd year, myself the 3rd and 4rd - in order to read and check them with the originals wherever they are. and put some unity in the publication.These recommandations have been handed to Dr. Hall (H.E) who is really the keeper of the department and the authority so far as texts are concerned. By all means he must not be ignored. He will foreward his conclusions higher till they reach you.When Woolley arrives he will have his say - Personnally I think the \"joint volume\" is the proper thing - even if my contribution is larger - for all sort of reasons I need not to explain.On my way here I visited North Africa from Algiers to Tunis and enjoyed it very much despite an unusual cold weather - as soon as I have seen Woolley I will go back to France and sail from Havre about the middle of May after visiting my family in Paris and Versailles.I expect you have done wonder in the new wing and I am anxious to see the Ur section - I know you do not spare your work and I am sure of your good taste.My respects to Dr. Gordon, and best regards to allYours sincerlyL. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 037b |
| Page Number: | 037b |
| 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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