Definitions – Borderscape Project

Borderscape Blog 4: Pharaonic Terms for Boundaries

by Oren Siegel 21 February 202221 February 2022One Comment

The ancient Egyptian language has two terms that denote boundaries: tash and djer. Tash is a term that corresponds to boundaries of all different kinds, from the rim of a plate to the edge of a field. It is also used to describe political boundaries, though these boundaries often look rather different than the ones …

Borderscape Blog 3: Two Important Archaeological Approaches to Borders

by Oren Siegel 14 February 202214 February 2022No Comments

To a certain extent, I put the cart before the horse last week in discussing the concept of “borderscapes” before “borders”, “boundaries”, and “frontiers”. Part of this was because only one of these terms is in the title of our project, and part of this was naked self-interest, since these concepts are complicated, and no …