Ur Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 016a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Fol
| Omeka Title: | PA-DI-B10-F005-016a-1934.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 6442 |
| Transcription: | [page 1]AcknowledgedWHITE HALL BLOOMSBURY SQUARE LONDON. W. C. 1July 19. 34Dear Mr. Jayne, The division is over and both parties are satisfied. The main portion of the finds were vases from the deep Jemdet Nasr level- stone vases and painted pottery of the red or three colour type. We got one good example of the last. Also lead cups - four of them - and one lead dish - One stone offering table shell lamps, and small stone lamps. There are the usual beads, few gold trinkets, some good seals, four of five terracottas, and some good stone weights inscribed 5 maneh, 1 maneh etc. I asked that the Museum get half of the \"refuse ' a mass of pots and fragments left outside of the division as uninteresting, but which you may find convenient for gifts all round. There a still a few good inscribed [page 4]me on the \"glacier de geants\" near Chamonix. So hoping for thebest. I hope you enjoy the Summer at the Museum, while everyone is away - Yours sincerely,L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 016a |
| Page Number: | 016a |
| Project: | DI |
| Date: | 1934 |
| 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 |
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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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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