The earliest known Chinese stone inscriptions, carved onto ten drum-shaped stones during the Eastern Zhou period in the state of Qin; the text consists of four-character poems and is now kept at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
stone drum script
An early calligraphic style used in the Stone Drum Inscriptions, representing a transitional form between 大篆dàzhuàn and 小篆xiǎozhuàn.
