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 His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website.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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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Leon Legrain, D.D., Sc.D. Leon Legrain, D.D., Sc.D. (none) Gadd, C.J. (none)
Season 3 Field Report Season 3 Field Report (none) Woolley, Leonard (none)
Season 4 Field Report Season 4 Field Report (none) Woolley, Leonard (none)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063c Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063c 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063d Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063d 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063e Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063e 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 066a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 066a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 066b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 066b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 068a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 068a 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 068b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 068b 1924 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069a 1925 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069b 1925 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073a Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073a 1925 (none) (none)
Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073b Ur Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073b 1925 (none) (none)
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