Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073a | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | Neuilly S/Seine 3 rue de Chartres May 17th 25 Dear Dr. Gordon I found here last week your letter of April 3rd. Many thanks for your points and the kind dispositions. I lingered on my way back and amply justified your suggestion for enjoying my six weeks vacation. I will cross the channel tomorrow May 18th and call in turn on all the authorities of the British Museum. Since your letter is only a copy of the one addressed to them, they are aware of your intentions, which fact will make it easier for me. I will show to the \"Epigraphists\" my copies of the inscriptions recovered during this campaign and discuss the question of publication. Whoever shall be Woolley's assistant in the next campaign, I feel exactly like you. I am ready to go if I am decided without my personal interference. It is a question of \"high politic\" between the two Museums, and makes life much more acceptable later on. I do not expect Woolley to need my assistance for his exhibition. In which case I am prepared to sail |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073a |
| Page Number: | 073a |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1925 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 2 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | 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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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