Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity: Essays in Honour of John S. Holladay, Jr.

459 Pages·2015·4.29 MB·English

by  Timothy P. Harrison

Walls of the Prince:
Egyptian Interactions with
Southwest Asia in Antiquity
Essays in Honour of John S. Holladay, Jr.
Edited by
Timothy P. Harrison, Edward B. Banning,
and Stanley Klassen
culture & history of the ancient near east
Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity
Culture and History of the
Ancient Near East
Founding Editor
M.H.E. Weippert
Editor-in-Chief
Jonathan Stökl
Editors
Eckart Frahm
W. Randall Garr
B. Halpern
Theo P.J. van den Hout
Leslie Anne Warden
Irene J. Winter

VOLUME 77
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Archaeologist
for Jack
One day I saw your trowel
dance across the balk
and I knew
you had a gift.
— Rosalyn Rubenstein
Walls of the Prince:
Egyptian Interactions with
Southwest Asia in Antiquity
Essays in Honour of John S. Holladay, Jr.
Edited by
Timothy P. Harrison, Edward B. Banning & Stanley Klassen
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Contents
Preface vii
John S. Holladay, Jr: An Appreciation ix
Timothy P. Harrison
Publications of John S. Holladay, Jr xiii
Tabula Gratulatoria xviii
Egyptian Long-Distance Trade in the Middle Kingdom and the Evidence
at the Red Sea Harbour at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis 1
Kathryn Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich
MB II Flat-Bottom Handmade Cooking Pots from Wadi Tumilat: A Useful
Chronological Marker or an Indicator of Technical Style? 11
Stanley Klassen
Flint and Forts: the Role of Flint in Late Middle-New Kingdom Egyptian
Weaponry 37
Carolyn Graves-Brown
Geophysical Surveys at Tell el-Maskhuta, 1978–1982 60
Ted Banning
Thutmose III’s Great Syrian Campaign: Tracing the Steps of the Egyptian
Pharaoh in Western Syria, Part I: From Idlib to Aleppo 74
Douglas Frayne
The Amman Airport Structure: A Re-assessment of Its Date-Range,
Function and Overall Role in the Levant 89
Gregory Mumford
Israel and Egypt in the “Age of Solomon” 199
John Van Seters
A Fishy Business: The Inland Trade in Nile perch (Lates niloticus)
in the Early Iron Age Levant 212
Bruce Routledge
vi contents
In the Shadow of a Giant: Egyptian Influence in Transjordan during
the Iron Age 234
P. M. Michèle Daviau
Snake Cults and Egyptian Military Bases 274
Kasia Szpakowska
Anthropoid Clay Coffins of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron
Age in Egypt and the Near East: A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence
from Tell el-Yahudiya 292
Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner
A Preliminary Analysis of Some Elements of the Saite and Persian Period
Pottery at Tell el-Maskhuta 316
Patricia Paice†
Meẓad Ḥashavyahu Reconsidered: Saite Strategy and Archaic Greek
Chronology 333
Peter James
Provenancing Basket Handle Jars from Mendes, Egypt 371
Lawrence A. Pavlish†
Sojourner in the Land: The Resident Alien in Late Period Egypt 396
Philip Kaplan
Author Index 415
General Index 423
Site Index 430
Preface
Walls of the Prince is the culmination of a long-running team effort to honor
our dear colleague and friend, John (Jack) S. Holladay, Jr. The theme of the
volume was originally chosen in conjunction with two sessions organized in
Jack’s honor at the ASOR annual meetings held in Toronto in 2002. The inten-
tion, at the time, was to publish the papers presented in these two sessions
together as a festschrift. Unfortunately, an extended illness to one of the orga-
nizers delayed the project indefinitely, and in the interim a number of the pre-
sentations were published elsewhere. Sadly, two of the presenters (Paice and
Pavlish) also passed away during this period.
Despite these setbacks, there remained a strong desire, especially among
Jack’s students, to see the project through to completion. Consequently, a
number of colleagues were invited to contribute papers in keeping with the
original theme on Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia, and the current
editors agreed to take up the task of shepherding the volume through to pub-
lication. Authors who had participated in the initial project (Banning, Daviau,
Mumford, Routledge and Van Seters) were given the opportunity to update
their papers; several chose to write new ones. A decision was also made to
include the contributions of Patricia Paice and Lawrence Pavlish. We unfortu-
nately were not able to locate a copy of Paice’s paper, and in the end graciously
received permission from the Egyptological Seminar in New York to reprint a
related study that had appeared previously in their Bulletin.
The result is a volume that explores Egyptian interactions with Southwest
Asia during the second and first millennium BC, including long-distance trade
in the Middle Kingdom, the itinerary of Thutmose III’s great Syrian campaign,
the Amman Airport structure, anthropoid coffins at Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt’s
relations with Israel in the age of Solomon, Nile perch and other trade with
the southern Levant and Transjordan in the Iron Age, Saite strategy at Mezad
Hashavyahu, and the concept of resident alien in Late Period Egypt. These
are complemented by methodological and typological studies of data from
the archaeological investigations at Tell el-Maskhuta, the Wadi Tumilat, and
Mendes in the eastern Nile delta. Together, they reflect the diverse range of
Professor Holladay’s long and distinguished scholarly career.
Bringing a project like this to completion, especially one involving its com-
plicated history, has required the help and good will of many. In addition to
my co-editors, Ted Banning and Stanley Klassen, I wish in particular to thank
Sally Stewart and Amy Barron, both of whom logged considerable hours edit-
ing each contribution to meet Brill’s formatting specifications. Calypso Kenney