Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 2 Folder: 2 - Page: 18 | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 2 Folder:
| Omeka Title: | 1928-2-18.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 2645 |
| Media Date: | 26 January 1928 |
| Transcription: | January 26, 1928 Dear Cooke:I have your letter of January 3rd, inquiring about U 2919, U 3108, U 3204, three objects assigned to the Baghdad Museum in the division of antiques from Ur made at the end of the third campaign 1924-1925.(1) U 3108,a white stone celt, is not here. By an agreement with the British Museum we have kept as our share the stela of Ur Nammu and a few duplicate doorsockets, clay cones and bricks. The rest has been returned to London or is in Baghdad.(2) U 2919 and U 3204 are here and, like many other inscribed tablets, have been sent here or to London for study.U 2919, a clay label with Aramaic inscription, is copied and published in the first volume of texts from Ur, printing now in London. The original will be returned to you by the same mail U 3204, a large tablet, balance sheet recording the receipts and issues of wool, is not yet copied, but will be returned to you if you desire it.Both tablets have been registered on the field and assigned to the Baghdad Museum.About the tablet material in general --nearly all unregistered -- I beg to state that it was agreed that it should be sent over to London or here for study and publication, after which fifty percent of the good tablets should be returned to Baghdad. Your sincerely[signed] L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 2 Folder: 2 - Page: 18 |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| Project: | UR |
| Date: | 1928 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Letter Author: | Legrain |
| Letter Recipient: | Cooke |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 2 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | Legrain, typewritten |
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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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