Raymond Weill

Raymond Weill (born January 28, 1874 in Elbeuf-sur-Seine , † July 13, 1950 in Paris ) was a French Egyptologist .

biography

He began a career in the military before he began studying with Gaston Maspero at the École pratique des hautes études at the age of 30 . From 1928 to 1945 he taught at the École pratique des hautes études.

He specialized in the history of ancient Egypt , more precisely: the Second Intermediate Period . In addition, he published several works on the end of the 12th Dynasty and the Hyksos . Towards the end of his life he came to the conviction that the Second Intermediate Period did not exist, but that the Hyksos would have ruled as local kings in the Nile Delta during the late 12th Dynasty and the Thebans of the New Kingdom would have followed directly into the Middle Kingdom .

Weill was one of the first archaeologists to excavate Wadi Hilweh near Jerusalem , a site he first referred to as the "City of David" after identifying it as the place where King David is believed to have erected his capital.

Fonts

• Les Décrets Royaux de l'Ancien Égyptien… étude sur les décrets royaux trouvés à Koptos… 1910 et 1911. 1912.
• La fin du Moyen Empire Egypt: étude sur les monuments et l'histoire de la période comprise entre the 12e and the 18e dynasty. 1918.
• La Cité de David, 1913-1914 , Paris: P. Geuthner, 1920.
• Bases, méthodes et results de la Chronologie Égyptienne. 1926-1928.
• Douzième dynasty, royauté de Haute-Égypte et domination Hyksos dans le Nord. 1953 (posthumously).

literature

• Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , p. 571.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wendy Pullan, Maximilian Sternberg, Lefkos Kyriacou, Craig Larkin, Michael Dumper: David's City in Palestinian Silwan . In: The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places . Routledge, November 20, 2013, ISBN 978-1-317-97556-4 , pp. 76-77.