Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | 3 rue de chartres Neccily s/ Seine Paris June 29th 24Dear Doctor Gordon. I recieved early last week your letter of June 12th. I certainly enjoy myself and had a pleasant trip. You ought to try it. I saw Mr. Maurice Nachman Friday 27th at the Grand Hotle. His collection is part in Egypt part in Paris. In Egypt he has still a fine line stone group of the IVth Dyn. With inscription-Pyramid style(Kheops)-from Memphis about .50 high-My sketch is precisely from memory-Price about 450.000 Francs-at \"Kelekian 2 rue castiglione private collection-Price $25 or 20.000I called on both, Sheid and Thureau Dangin and mentioned your name and compliments-There is now in the Louvre a department of plasters cast where you can acquire for the Univ Mus. any copy of Sumerian, Babylonian or Assyrian monument you desire. I could not find room in the Safford or Hyde. P. Hotel, but mo2 word of welcome, and cause he will provide for one. I will fly over Tuesday 1st July and spend a few days in London. and write to you as soon as I see the collection and work to be doneYours most sincerelyL. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061a |
| Page Number: | 061a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | acquisitions, drawing, 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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