Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 039a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Omeka ID: | 4979 |
| Transcription: | 68 Bd Cotte, Enghien-les-Bains, S [?]O, France aug. 31.28Dear Miss Mc Hugh.\"We\" have such a glorious time ! But I still miss the museum and the friends .. all of them. Business first. On the boat before landing I wrote to S. Smith, to fix an appointment. I received letter n° 1 dated aug. 14th, rather a dilatory thing.I answered: \"that there was no mistake nor hesitation on our side. The letter of Sir. F. Kenyon of July 17 had been duly received, and the suggestion of another delay considered and not approved. First because the last discoveries had been so well advertized that the Trustees had a legitimate desire for immediate possession of such beautiful objects. Next from one year to the following one it was impossible to keep track of the objects and of their relative value.I received then letter n° 2 dated aug. 20 which fixes the meeting at the end of Sept. -You will realise that it was necessary to insist, and everything will be now smooth and easy.- My last argument was that I |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 039a |
| Page Number: | 039a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1928 |
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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