Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity

Walls of the Prince offers a series of articles that explore Egyptian interactions with Southwest Asia during the second and first millennium BCE, 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 al-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.

Timothy P. Harrison, PhD (1995), University of Chicago, is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Toronto. He has directed excavations at Tell Madaba, in Jordan, and Tell Tayinat, in Turkey, and has published on the Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean, including Megiddo 3: Final Report of the Stratum VI Excavations (2004), and the edited volume, Cyprus, The Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Change and Continuity (2008).

Edward B. Banning, PhD (1985), University of Toronto, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has directed a long-running regional survey, including excavations at a series of prehistoric sites, in the Wadi Ziqlab, in Jordan. Professor Banning has published extensively on the prehistory of Jordan and the broader Near East, and on regional survey methods and landscape archaeology, including Archaeological Survey in the Manuals on Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique series (2002).

Stanley Klassen, PhD candidate, University of Toronto, is Collections Manager and Lab Technician of the Archaeology Lab in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. He has excavated in Israel and Jordan and has published on pottery from the Bronze and Iron Age of the Southern Levant, including in the edited volume, Interpreting Silent Artefacts. Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics (2009).