Part of a rubbing of bronze script engraved on the Song ding (颂鼎).[1]
The text records the appointment of a man named Song (颂) as supervisor of the storehouses in Chengzhou, and is repeated on at least 3 tripod pots (鼎 dǐng), 5 tureens (簋 guǐ) and their lids, and 2 vases (壺 hú) and their lids.[2]
The full text is (with added punctuation):
The original text indicates repetition of the characters 子 and 孫 in the last line using iteration marks.
The text is dated the 5th month of the 3rd year of an unnamed king.
Shaughnessy identifies the king as Xuan, implying a year of 825 BC.[3]
The image is copied from an old Chinese book published before the Chinese copyright law was set up.
Español: Calco de un jarrón de bronce de hacia el 900 adC.
↑Kern, Martin (2007), "The performance of writing in Western Zhou China", in The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign, S. La Porta and David Dean Shulman (eds.), BRILL, pp. 109–175, ISBN 978-90-04-15810-8. Discussion and images of the various versions on pp. 141–144.
↑Shaughnessy, Edward L. (1999), "Western Zhou history", in Loewe, Michael; Shaughnessy, Edward L., The Cambridge History of Ancient China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 292–351, ISBN 978-0-521-47030-8. Translation on pp. 298–299.