石鼓铭文（东周，公元前5世纪） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	石鼓铭文（东周，公元前5世纪）
品名（英）	Inscriptions on the Stone Drums (Eastern Zhou dynasty, 5th century B.C.)
入馆年号	1992年，1992.166.1a, b
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Unidentified artist
创作年份	公元 1600 - 公元 1644
创作地区
分类	拓本（Rubbing）
尺寸	图像 (scroll a): 16 1/2 × 257 1/4 英寸 (41.9 × 653.4 厘米) 图像 (scroll b): 16 3/4 × 265 5/8 英寸 (42.5 × 674.7 厘米) 整体 with mounting (each) 高 17 3/4 英寸 (45.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	在公元三世纪形成现代"楷书"（楷书）之前，中国文字在两千多年的时间里缓慢发展。最古老的字体被称为"篆书"，在商、周和秦时期（约公元前1500年至206年）逐渐发展起来，其特征是以均匀粗细的笔画绘制曲线状的图形记录皇家狩猎探险的《十石鼓》铭文可能是由秦国早期的一位公爵所刻，构成了现存最早的任何长度的纪念性篆书文本。这种文字代表了商周青铜器上发现的"大篆"和秦朝（公元前221–206年）官方文件中使用的标准"小篆"之间的过渡风格。公元7世纪在陕西宝鸡附近发现的鼓被徽宗（公元1101–25年）移到了开封的皇宫中。1127年，金军队占领了宋都，鼓再次被转移到北京，现在存放在故宫博物院石刻和木雕铭文的墨拓片传统是中国印刷术的先驱，并使书法模型的广泛传播成为可能。
介绍（英）	Written Chinese evolved slowly over more than two millennia before arriving at a modern, "regular" script (kai shu) in the third century A.D. The oldest script type, known as "seal" script (zhuan shu), developed gradually during the Shang, Zhou, and Qin periods (ca. 1500–206 B.C.) and is characterized by curvilinear picturelike forms executed in strokes of even thickness. Inscriptions on the Ten Stone Drums, which record royal hunting expeditions, were probably engraved by one of the early dukes of the Qin state and constitute the earliest monumental seal-script texts of any length to survive. The script represents a transitional style between the "large-seal" script found on Shang and Zhou bronze vessels and the standardized "small-seal" script employed in official documents of the Qin dynasty (221–206 B.C.). The drums, discovered near Baoji in Shaanxi Province in the seventh century A.D., were moved to the imperial palace in Kaifeng by Emperor Huizong (r. 1101–25). When Jurched Jin troops captured the Song capital in 1127, the drums were moved again to Beijing, where they are now in the Palace Museum. The tradition of making ink rubbings of stone- and wood-carved inscriptions was a precursor to printing in China and made possible the wide dissemination of calligraphic models.