Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folde
| Omeka Title: | PA-CU-B07-F003-042b-1928.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 4992 |
| Transcription: | - The gold lamp [drawing - scale ?- (artifact: lamp ?)]- The last year [lime st ?] relief (broken) with chariot- The (half) gaming board with animal engraved(The best of this year goes to BaghdadThe good one from last year ... to London)- The queen's [dress?] of thousand beads *London keeps the inlaid stele the chariot (gold lion head) the harp (calf's head) the gaming board etc * The Director and the three assistants declared that they were satisfied of a friendly and fair division. * Questions of transport, insurance, and packing will come to you. I refused to answer any of them. I just think that it would be useful to fix a date and to cut any further delay.Question of copies and duplicate [?] reproduction of objects either in London or BaghdadQuestion of exhibiting in Phila important pieces property of London (Stela at least).I am now busy making a short inventory of our share.An assistant clerk checks it with me and keeps a copy.Hope to be back in Paris Sunday Sept. 30.Yours trulyL. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042b |
| Page Number: | 042b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1928 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | DoF, handwritten, Legrain |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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