Josef W. Wegner

Josef William Wegner (born October 1967) is an American Egyptologist, archaeologist[1] and associate professor in Egyptology at the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Pennsylvania,[2] where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Egyptology. His father is the astrophysicist, Gary A. Wegner.

Josef William Wegner
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationProfessor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania

He is noted for his continued research at Abydos, where he excavated the tomb of pharaoh Sobekhotep IV[3] in 2013 and discovered that of pharaoh Seneb Kay in 2014.[4][5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

Selected works
  • The mortuary complex of Senwosret III : a study of Middle Kingdom state activity and the cult of Osiris at Abydos Ph.D. thesis, (1996) OCLC 857223788
  • Searching for Ancient Egypt (author David P. Silverman), contributor (1997) ISBN 1-931707-36-7
  • Akhenaten and Tutankhamun : revolution and restoration, coauthor (2006) ISBN 978-1-93-170790-9
  • The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos (2007) ISBN 0-9740025-4-2
  • Archaism and Innovation, coauthor (2009) ISBN 0-9802065-1-0
  • The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia : The Story of the Colossal Sphinx of Ramses the Great in the Penn Museum, coauthor (2015) ISBN 978-1-93-453677-3
  • The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten : Penn Museum E16230, (2017) ISBN 978-1-93-453687-2

References
  1. "Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?". National Geographic. March 24, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
  2. "Student Dies in Hiking Accident". Harvard Crimson. October 23, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
  3. Wegner, J.; Cahail, K. (2015). "Royal Funerary Equipment of a King Sobekhotep at South Abydos: Evidence for the Tombs of Sobekhotep IV and Neferhotep I?". JARCE. 15.
  4. Discovery of the tomb and nomen of the pharaoh on the Luxor Times.
  5. Discovery of the tomb of Seneb Kay
  6. Wegner, Josef W. (2015). "A royal necropolis at south Abydos: New Light on Egypt's Second Intermediate Period". Near Eastern Archaeology. 78 (2): 69–70. doi:10.5615/neareastarch.78.2.0068. S2CID 163519900.
  7. The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten.


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