Marco Zecchi
Associate professor, SSD STAA-01/B Egittologia e Civiltà Copta, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.
Education
1996–1999
University of Bologna – Faculty of Arts and Philosophy: PhD in “African Antiquities” (Egyptology specialization), awarded on March 14, 2000.
January 1994 – December 1995
University of Liverpool – School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies: M.Phil. in Egyptology, awarded on July 25, 1996.
Supervisor: Dr. C.J. Eyre.
1986–1991
University of Bologna – Faculty of Arts and Philosophy: Degree in History (thesis in Egyptology), awarded on March 21, 1991. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
Scholarships and Awards
2008
Recipient of the “Marco Polo” award, University of Bologna, for a research at the University of Liverpool (UK), School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology.
2004–2006
Postdoctoral research fellowship, University of Bologna, Department of Archaeology.
2003
Awarded the Prize Michela Schiff Giorgini Foundation (Lausanne) to support the project “Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from the Fayyum”.
1999
Scholarship awarded by Brown University for a two-month research period at the Department of Egyptology.
1994–1995
Postgraduate scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / University of Bologna (from January 1994), funding an M.Phil. in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
Excavation Experience
November 2005–2007
Excavation campaigns of the University of Bologna at Kom Umm el-Atl (Bakchias, Fayyum, Egypt), directed by Prof. S. Pernigotti.
October 1–28, 1996
Joint excavation campaign by the Universities of Bologna and Lecce at Kom Umm el-Atl (Bakchias, Fayyum, Egypt).
Teaching Activities
Since 2009
Courses “Egyptology” and “Egyptian Epigraphy”, University of Bologna.
Since 2009
Course “Egyptology” at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage, University of Bologna.
2008–2009
Courses “Egyptian Archaeology” and “Egyptian Epigraphy”, University of Bologna.
2007–2008
Course “Egyptian Archaeology”, University of Bologna.
2004–2005; 2006–2007
Adjunct Professor in “Egyptology and Coptic Civilization”, University of Sassari.
2003–2004
Tutor in “Egyptology and Coptic Language and Literature” and “Egyptian Archaeology”, University of Bologna.
2002–2003
90-hour tutoring contract in Egyptology and Coptic, University of Bologna.
2001–2002
30-hour teaching contract for “Coptic Language and Literature”, University of Bologna.
2000–2001
20-hour teaching contract for “Coptic Language and Literature”, University of Bologna.
Other Institutional and Organizational Activities
Since 2010
Member of the Admissions Committee for the Master’s Degree in “Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World”, University of Bologna.
2018–2022
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Library of the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations.
February 29, 2012
Member of the PhD Examination Committee, University of Liverpool.
July 1, 2011
Member of the Final PhD Examination Committee, University of Pisa.
2005–2009
Organizer of the University of Bologna Summer/Winter School at Bakchias (Egypt).
Conference and Seminar Participation
2024 – October 24–25
Invited lecture at the International Conference “Ancient Egyptian Deities and Their Numerous Names: the One and the Many in Religious Discourse and Practice”, University of Basel:
“From One to Many Epithets: the Construction of Sobek in the Fayum of the Dynastic Period”.
2023 – March 17
Invited lecture at the Workshop “Les épithètes topiques des dieux antiques: une approche comparative entre Égypte, Grèce et monde sémitique”, University of Lausanne:
“Osiris Lord of Pharbaithos: A Case Study in the Creation of Osirian Toponymic Epithets”.
2022 – November 1–3
Invited lecture at the International Conference “Gateway to Africa. Cultural Exchanges across the Cataracts (from Prehistory to the Mamluk Era)”, Institut français d’archéologie orientale:
“Khnum beyond the First Cataract: the God’s Role in the Nubian Temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty”.
2016 – October 26–28
Invited lecture at the 6th International Fayum Conference “Le Fayoum – archéologie, histoire, religion”, organized by Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3:
“Personal Names in the Fayyum: from the 12th Dynasty to the Ramesside Period”.
2014 – April 3–4
Invited lecture at the Workshop “Current Research in Ancient Egyptian Religion: Osiris, Amon, Mut”, University of Basel:
“The Naos of Leiden of Amasis: Protection and Awakening of Osiris”.
2012 – March 12
Conference “Oracles, Visions and Prophecies. Egypt from Alexander the Great to al-Hakim”, Sapienza University of Rome:
“Horus the Child as a Soothsayer in Greco-Roman Ritual Scenes”.
2010 – July 5–6
Conference “The Scribe and His King: from Document to Monument”, University of Bologna:
“The Scribe of Hathor”.
2009 – December 17–18
Conference “Egypt in the Ramesside Age”, Chianciano Terme:
“Sobek of Shedet in the Ramesside Period”.
2007 – May 30–31
International Conference “Priesthood and Civil Society in Ancient Egypt”, University of Bologna:
“The Sovereign as s3-mr=f in the Greco-Roman Period: Some Observations”.
2006 – June 16
Invited lecture for the “Forschungskolloquium Sommersemester 2006”, Egyptological Seminar, University of Basel:
“The Worship of Sobek in the Fayyum in the Dynastic Period”.
2006 – May 22–23
Conference “The Earth, Men and Gods”, University of Bologna:
“The Ritual of Barley Cutting (3sh it) in Greco-Roman Temples”.
2006 – February 1–2
10th National Conference of Egyptology and Papyrology, Rome, IICE Conference:
“The Photographic Survey of the Obelisk of Abgig”.
2005 – April 20–21
Conference “The Crocodile and the Cobra”, University of Bologna:
“Sobek as a Funerary Deity in the Old and Middle Kingdoms”.
2003 – April 11–13
8th National Conference of Egyptology and Papyrology, Turin, IICE Conference:
“Sobek, the Crocodile and Women”.
2002 – March 1–3
Conference “On the Threshold of the Sacred: Esotericism and Initiation in the Great Religions and Masonic Tradition”, Florence:
“Initiation in Egyptian Religious Culture”.
