Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | [Page 3]3Marble arch. London is awfully crowded - over 700,000 visitors - and expensive just now. Woolley had to call on 17 hotels before he could make reservation.I paid my due respects to the Director of the British Museum Sir Fred Kenyon. He was very gracious and satisfied with the result of the Ur Expedition. I actually witnessed the keen interest excited by the new exhibit. I sincerly [sic] wish we had the same opportunity of show and dispay of plans and coloured reconstructions.Do you not think that a plaster cast of the most important[Page 4]objects left in Bagdad [sic] and London would be most desirable: like the statue of king Entemena and the milking scene, and the copper blade with the gold and lapis handle: I understand that the British Museum is ready to make any cast so long we pay the work.Mr. Woolley wants any member of the expedition to join him in Bagdad [sic] on the 25th of October- The prices of a trip London-Bagdad [sic] over Marseilles Beyrout [sic]- at Cook & Sons - are [British Pound Symbol] 70 or 74 - I have some informations about the necessary kit[?] and prospective troubles-I sail back from Havre July 26th on the \"Suffren\"Yours most sincerelyL. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060b |
| Page Number: | 060b |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| 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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