Leon Legrain

Full Name: Leon Legrain     
Date of Birth: 1878     
Date of Death: 1963     
Involvement with Ur: Epigrapher     
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Season Number: 04: 1925-1926      
Time of Involvement with Ur: 1924-26     
Biography: 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041c Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041c 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041d Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041d 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042a 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042b 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 043a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 043a 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 043b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 043b 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 044a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 044a 1928 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 044b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 044b 1928 (none) (none)
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Ur Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001a 1929 (none) (none)

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