Josef W. Wegner Explained

Josef William Wegner
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania
Occupation:Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania

Josef William Wegner (born October 1967) is an American Egyptologist, archaeologist[1] and Professor[2] in Egyptology at the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania,[3] where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Egyptology in 1996. He specializes in Egyptian Middle Kingdom archaeology (circa 2050-1650BCE).[4] His father is the astrophysicist, Gary A. Wegner.

He is noted for his continued research at Abydos, where he excavated the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep IV[5] in 2013 and discovered that of Pharaoh Seneb Kay in 2014.[6] [7] Later, he excavated an entire royal necropolis dating to the Second Intermediate Period, possibly belonging to kings of the Theban sixteenth dynasty or witnessing the existence of the Abydos dynasty.[8] Wegner published an analysis of the Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten in a university museum monograph that was abstracted in 2018.[9] His research has been funded by "the American Research Center in Egypt, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, [and the] American Philosophical Society."[10]

Career

Wegner was raised in New Hampshire, but he regularly traveled to the nearby Penn Museum to admire its expansive Egyptian collections as a child. He attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate student, graduating with a double major in Anthropology and Egyptology in 1989. He returned to Penn for his graduate degree, completing his Ph.D in 1996 with a dissertation on the formation of the Osiris cult in Abydos region during the Middle Kingdom (circa 2000-1600 BCE).[11] His excavation project in South Abydos was the first significant project in the region in nearly a century. In 2002, Wegner was appointed Associate Curator in the Egyptian division at the Penn Museum.[12] He is currently a Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department and Curator at the Penn Museum. His recent fieldwork has focused on topics such as Pharaoh Senwosret III's burial site and cult settlement in South Abydos,[13] including a 2021 paper published by the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt entitled, "A Late Middle Kingdom Temple Bakery at South Abydos."[14]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?. https://web.archive.org/web/20081204033900/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081114-pyramid-room_2.html. dead. December 4, 2008. March 24, 2010. National Geographic. June 18, 2010.
  2. Web site: Josef W. Wegner Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations . 2022-11-14 . nelc.sas.upenn.edu.
  3. News: Student Dies in Hiking Accident. October 23, 2007. Harvard Crimson. June 18, 2010.
  4. Web site: Josef W. Wegner Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations . 2022-10-10 . nelc.sas.upenn.edu.
  5. Wegner. J.. K.. Cahail. Royal Funerary Equipment of a King Sobekhotep at South Abydos: Evidence for the Tombs of Sobekhotep IV and Neferhotep I?. JARCE. 15. 2015.
  6. http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.nl/2014/01/abydos-dynasty-tomb-discovered.html Discovery of the tomb and nomen of the pharaoh
  7. Web site: Mystery pharaoh and his tomb identified in Egypt . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230624173444/https://www.nbcnews.com/science/mystery-pharaoh-his-tomb-identified-egypt-2D11934339 . 2023-06-24 . live .
  8. Josef W.. Wegner. Josef W. Wegner . 2015. A royal necropolis at south Abydos: New Light on Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. Near Eastern Archaeology. 69–70. 78. 2. 10.5615/neareastarch.78.2.0068. 163519900.
  9. Book: The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten.
  10. Web site: Josef W. Wegner Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations . 2022-10-10 . nelc.sas.upenn.edu.
  11. Web site: Josef W. Wegner Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations . 2022-11-23 . nelc.sas.upenn.edu.
  12. Olszewski . Deborah . Meet the Curators: Josef Wegner . Expedition Magazine . 47 . 2 . 4–5 . Penn Museum.
  13. Web site: Josef W. Wegner Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations . 2022-11-23 . nelc.sas.upenn.edu.
  14. Wegner . Josef . 2021 . A Late Middle Kingdom Temple Bakery at South Abydos . Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt . 57 . 1 . 287–328 . Lockwood Online Journals.

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