Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 078b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | temple, gates, colonnades, rosy and honey coloured like old ivory. There is a half brand new hotel. But yes we have no hot water. All the turks have arrived and are waiting outside on the desert - good long ride to Kebeisa near Hit where we found in the local khans a first touch of English comfort.In Bagdad I did not omit to present dutifully your respects to Hon. Miss G.B. - Could I ask you to mail at her address a copy of the Mus. Journ. with my account of the Ur Expedi-tion, and another copy to Mr. R.E. Cooke of the Awqaf - Since they are mentioned by name I know that they would like to read it. And if my request may be granted, I should like to have a copy of the Seals catalogue of the museum for the camp library at Ur, useful on the dig. Your two volumes of Miss G.B. were received with gratitude.The two new assistants of Woolley are very nice. You will probably hear more in the report. The first two weeks have been successful. Bronze and stone objects, and statues of Dungi time well repay the first efforts. The supposed palace of Dungi is a rich burying ground, gull of brick built rectangular tomb vaulted over.-I spent two days to visit Ktesiphon, Babylon and Borsippa before reaching Ur-McKay is working for a while in the isle of Bahrein before coming back to Kish. Heavy rain the first part of the month. I just come in time for the fine weather.[Note written vertically on left side of page]I hope the paper I mailed in Rome has arrived safely. Yours sincerely, L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 078b |
| Page Number: | 078b |
| 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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