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<p>Ancient Chinese Small seal script translation.</p>

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2024-03-12T14:03:11.517Z
the leftest lower 5th & 4th characters are “司用”
水巷孑蠻
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2024-03-12T16:01:32.080Z
The characters are real (and not small seal script - they're [Western Zhou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Zhou) [bronze inscriptions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_bronze_inscriptions)), but I don't think this says anything coherent. There's way too many 王、用、寶、且（祖）、月 scattered all over the place. You'd typically only find at most 1 or 2 occurrences of them in a real inscription.
dROOOze
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2024-03-13T04:50:45.570Z
and, several 子、乙、周、孫；hard to make any semantically guess  any more clear pictures of the texts, and, of the whole artefact?
水巷孑蠻
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2024-03-14T09:16:48.657Z
Added more pictures
Pip Schofield
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2024-03-14T09:54:54.993Z
besides, i highly recommend you contact christie's, or sotheby's; their hong kong offices have experts in chinese related artefacts 
水巷孑蠻
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2024-03-14T09:56:35.643Z
interesting  the format, most likely, would be classified as “簋” (圈足無蓋無耳), a “vessel used to hold offerings of food” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_(vessel) about the texts, i’ll try again, please wait
水巷孑蠻
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2024-03-15T13:50:40.580Z
I am going to try to do a rubbing of the characters.
Pip Schofield
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can anyone translate any of this seal script on an old bronze please
# can anyone translate any of this seal script on an old bronze please

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-03-12)

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Ancient Chinese Small seal script translation.

**Tags:** translation, character-identification, traditional-characters

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: the leftest lower 5th & 4th characters are “司用”  
> **username_2**: The characters are real (and not small seal script - they're [Western Zhou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Zhou) [bronze inscriptions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_bronze_inscriptions)), but I don't think this says anything coherent. There's way too many 王、用、寶、且（祖）、月 scattered all over the place. You'd typically only find at most 1 or 2 occurrences of them in a real inscription.  
> **username_1**: and, several 子、乙、周、孫；hard to make any semantically guess  any more clear pictures of the texts, and, of the whole artefact?  
> **username_0**: Added more pictures  
> **username_1**: besides, i highly recommend you contact christie's, or sotheby's; their hong kong offices have experts in chinese related artefacts   
> **username_1**: interesting  the format, most likely, would be classified as “簋” (圈足無蓋無耳), a “vessel used to hold offerings of food” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_(vessel) about the texts, i’ll try again, please wait  
> **username_0**: I am going to try to do a rubbing of the characters.  

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