Gailani Werr, Lamia
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Name (Latin)
Gailani Werr, Lamia
Other forms of name
Al-Gailani, Lamia
Gailani, Lamia
Al-Gailani Werr, Lamia
Gailani, L. (Lamia)
Werr, Lamia Gailani
Date of birth
1938-03-08
Date of death
2019-01-18
Associated country
Iraq
Field of activity
Cylinder seals
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Destruction and pillage
Iraq--Antiquities
Occupation
Archaeologists
Museum curators
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- 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)
- 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)