Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 011b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 10 Fol
| Omeka Title: | PA-DI-B10-F005-011b-1932.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 6437 |
| Transcription: | [page 2- on left side]of massive copper, with an inscription of Nur- Adad [?], one of the Larsa king [sic]. In fact it is the better example out of three. Baghdad has the two others. The inscription is known. The fourth, scarcely legible, but perhaps bearing another text, has fallen to the Br. Mu. part.2.- A curious gaming board in soft diorite where pins were moved from hole to hole. The rest is the usual mixture of cylinder seals, terracotta figure bears, and a few jewels, weights and clay objects, very few pots [?], practically no copper, and no pottery. The catalogue will not be burdened [?] and the registrar will have some rest.I found here Miss M. L. Baker very busy with her water colours and doing well. I spent sometime at the Thackeray Hotel where she has settled, but I have[page 3- on right side]moved lately to the \"White Hall\" [appears underlined] for comfort. But we meet at the Museum.I inquired again about the Ur field catalogues [sic] of 1929-19301930-1931and I was rold that 1929-1930 had been [appears underlined] sent to Philadelphia after April 1931.- Would you please let me know if this is a fact.1930-1931 is still here and will be sent with our share of antiquities before the end of the year. Probably with it, they will send the catalogue [sic] of the last (and 10th) campaign- 1931-1932, which is getting printed.I was friendly-received by Sydney Smith and Gadd, and I do enjoy their society. Woolley is here also, and has taken his quarters at Gray's Inn, while Mrs. W. is recovering in the country. She had a serious illness, the typhoid fever |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 011b |
| Page Number: | 011b |
| Project: | DI |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 10 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 5 |
| 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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