Ur Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 016b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Fol
| Omeka Title: | PA-DI-B10-F005-016b-1934.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 6443 |
| Transcription: | [page 2- left side]bricks of a known type, but which are always a valuable asset for exchange or present.A small box of clay fragment with real inscription will be sent [?] to Phila. for study and if necessary to add to the major work done last year.The copper line give use the usual share of axes and egde, knife, needle- one good pin with bull head top - and cups.I had to cross on the 17 because the curators were free only this week - the Director Dr. Hill is away I hope to call again and will try to see him before sailing back. I suppose that the printing of cuneiform texts from Ur- apart from archaeology- will be a task incumbent to the two museums, without any Carnegie contributions.I expect to see Woolley before the 22nd. But he has moved to the country[page 1- right side]at Leckford some 50 m. outside London. So I have to make an appointment.S. Smith and C.J. Gadd are both well and helped gracefully through the business I got a few minutes with Mallowan who expect to start a little dig of his own in the country round Mossul [sic].I saw the No. I, 1 [?] of Iraq- the Miss Bell memorial magazine- Do we subscribe to it. We ought too. They start with valuable material. I like to see it by the side of Syria the French publication.The weather is dry, hot, and lovely according to me, but unusual in this country and the \"natives\" seem to resent it. As soon as I am free I will leave London by road and see a bit of the land up to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.No news or fear of the war but the feeling of security was just the same in July 1914, as the war caught |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 016b |
| Page Number: | 016b |
| 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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