| LC control no. | nr 99014936 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gailani Werr, Lamia |
| Variant(s) | Werr, Lamia Gailani Gailani, L. (Lamia) Al-Gailani Werr, Lamia Gailani, Lamia Al-Gailani, Lamia |
| Associated country | Iraq |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1938-03-08 |
| Death date | 2019-01-18 |
| Place of birth | Baghdad (Iraq) |
| Place of death | Amman (Jordan) |
| Field of activity | Cylinder seals Iraq--Antiquities Iraq War, 2003-2011--Destruction and pillage |
| Affiliation | Matḥaf al-ʻIrāqī |
| Profession or occupation | Archaeologists Museum curators |
| Found in | Studies in the chronology and regional style of old Babylonian cylinder seals, 1988: t.p. (Lamia al-Gailani Werr) p. vii (Ph. D. thesis, Inst. of Archaeology, Univ. of London, 1977) addendum to bibliog. (L. al-Gailani) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 28, 2019 (in obituary published Jan. 25: Lamia Al-Gailani Werr; b. Lamia Al-Gailani, b. Mar. 8, 1938, Baghdad; m. Abd al-Rahman Al-Gailani, a second cousin and Islamic architecture historian (div.); m. George Werr (d. 2003); d. Jan. 18, Amman, Jordan, aged 80; as one of the Iraq's first female archaeologists, helped her country's national museum recover from the looting of its antiquities at the outset of the Iraq war; built her reputation as a widely respected scholar, curator, and writer over nearly a half-century, living mostly in London but returning regularly to Iraq to do research) |
| Associated language | eng |
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