Nenad Marković
Marković's research covers a wide range of topics, including kingship, religion, onomastics, prosopography, kinship, genealogy, nepotism, endogamy, and elite networks, among other political, religious, cultural, and social aspects of the Ancient World. His primary focus is on the Nile Delta and the religious personnel who worked in the cities of the area, including Memphis, Letopolis, Heliopolis, Athribis, Mendes, Sais, Buto, and Tanis. Chronologically, the research involves the Kushite, Saite-Persian, Ptolemaic and Roman periods (c. 740 BCE - c. 400 CE). The overarching topic is the foundation of nearly successive external Empires in Egypt (Persian, Hellenistic, Roman) and how this process influenced the temple officials, who showed remarkable resilience and adaptability to the critical political changes induced by the external conquests of the country. This particular social group was responsible for the perpetuation of worshipping Egyptian deities and maintaining the long-standing traditional culture throughout the period under study. Further research interests include the Apis bulls of Memphis, the creation of the museums and private collections, the history of Egyptology, the formation and development of our modern knowledge about the past, and the (mis)use of such knowledge today.
Marković created and was the primary instructor for the special educational program, 'Egyptology in the Museum of African Art' (http://www.mau.rs/sr/egiptologija-u-mau.html) in Belgrade, which is aimed at a wide range of audiences from young children to older adults. Alongside many educational workshops for children, he led four semester-long learning non-degree courses (spring 2018, winter 2018/2019, spring 2019, winter 2019/2020), a crash course for foreign diplomats in Belgrade (spring 2018), and a study day 'Animals in Ancient Egypt: Bodies, Texts and Representations' (winter 2019). The programme has been suspended because of the museum's renovation.
Between 2019 and 2020, he was the guest lecturer at the Students’ Cultural Centre, Belgrade (Serbia), delivering occasional free public lectures on the history, culture and archaeology of Ancient Egypt for the general audience.
He curated two exhibitions focusing on ancient Egyptian artefacts in Serbia for the Museum of African Art in Belgrade (2019) and the Town Museum of Sombor (2020). He also contributed to a photographic exhibition dedicated to the jewellery from ancient and modern Egypt at the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (2020) by delivering an opening lecture and composing brief texts on jewellery for the museum’s website.
He has been presented with awards and grants from the 'DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service' (2011), the ERSTE Stiftung (2011-2012), the ‘Stiftungsfonds for Postgraduates in Egyptology’ (2015, 2018), the 'British Scholarship Trust' (2016), the 'Robert Anderson Trust' (2017), and the 'Foundation Maison des sciences de l’homme' (2022), and has held the PhD Scholarship of the Charles University, Prague (2015-2018). Because of these grants and other sources of funding, Marković could spend a considerable amount of time undertaking independent studies in various libraries, museums, and archives in Europe and Egypt, accumulating an extensive amount of knowledge and resources (both published and unpublished) for his research projects.
He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London).
Marković created and was the primary instructor for the special educational program, 'Egyptology in the Museum of African Art' (http://www.mau.rs/sr/egiptologija-u-mau.html) in Belgrade, which is aimed at a wide range of audiences from young children to older adults. Alongside many educational workshops for children, he led four semester-long learning non-degree courses (spring 2018, winter 2018/2019, spring 2019, winter 2019/2020), a crash course for foreign diplomats in Belgrade (spring 2018), and a study day 'Animals in Ancient Egypt: Bodies, Texts and Representations' (winter 2019). The programme has been suspended because of the museum's renovation.
Between 2019 and 2020, he was the guest lecturer at the Students’ Cultural Centre, Belgrade (Serbia), delivering occasional free public lectures on the history, culture and archaeology of Ancient Egypt for the general audience.
He curated two exhibitions focusing on ancient Egyptian artefacts in Serbia for the Museum of African Art in Belgrade (2019) and the Town Museum of Sombor (2020). He also contributed to a photographic exhibition dedicated to the jewellery from ancient and modern Egypt at the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (2020) by delivering an opening lecture and composing brief texts on jewellery for the museum’s website.
He has been presented with awards and grants from the 'DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service' (2011), the ERSTE Stiftung (2011-2012), the ‘Stiftungsfonds for Postgraduates in Egyptology’ (2015, 2018), the 'British Scholarship Trust' (2016), the 'Robert Anderson Trust' (2017), and the 'Foundation Maison des sciences de l’homme' (2022), and has held the PhD Scholarship of the Charles University, Prague (2015-2018). Because of these grants and other sources of funding, Marković could spend a considerable amount of time undertaking independent studies in various libraries, museums, and archives in Europe and Egypt, accumulating an extensive amount of knowledge and resources (both published and unpublished) for his research projects.
He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London).
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Nevertheless, the cumulative evidence emerging slowly from various museums and archives worldwide augur well for future research. My general aim is to produce a more nuanced picture of the social lives of the temples and their personnel, highlighting the multi-faceted nature of their roles, usually positioned in-between the royal control, overall autonomy, and strong local interests. The focus of this lecture is one of the most influential families that occupied the highest echelons of Egyptian society over multiple generations and several kings/dynasties. Members of this kin group had access to a number of different and important courtly, administrative, and religious offices, including various temple-related positions at Sais, Buto, Imau, Kom Firin, Mefkat, Athribis, Letopolis, Heliopolis, and Memphis. Indeed, the majority of information about this family comes from the temple context and all members whose names and titles are known received income predominantly from different temples across Lower Egypt. An extended family tree covers the full length of the Manethonian Twenty-Sixth (Saite) Dynasty, while the later generations of the same family saw Egypt pass to Achaemenid rule and continue to figure prominently under the Persian administration before completely disappearing from surviving records during the fifth century BCE. Despite being a highly visible familial group for more than two centuries, their significance for the history of the Saite-Persian Egypt is still incompletely understood and there is no synthetic study of the group. This lecture will give a prosopographical and social survey of this kin group, adding numerous individuals to the extended family tree that have not previously been identified as belonging to the same family.