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Middle Kingdom may refer to: Nation. The Middle Kingdom, a name for China, from the translation of its native Chinese name, Zhongguo; Middle Kingdom of Egypt, ...
The He zun (Chinese: 何尊) is an ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel of the zun shape. [2] It dates from the era of Western Zhou (1046–771 BC), [3] specifically the early years of the dynasty, [4] and is famous as the oldest artifact with the written characters meaning "Middle Kingdom" or "Central State" — 中國: "China" — in a bronze inscription on the container. [5]
The "Middle Kingdom" thus served as a reference point for a geography sometimes real and sometimes mythological, including lands and seas surrounding the Middle Land, with mountain peaks and sky (Heaven or heavens) above, with sacred grottoes and an underworld below, and even sometimes with some very abstract other worlds.
Parkinson and Morenz also speculate that written works of the Middle Kingdom were transcriptions of the oral literature of the Old Kingdom. [112] It is known that some oral poetry was preserved in later writing; for example, litter-bearers' songs were preserved as written verses in tomb inscriptions of the Old Kingdom.
These Sphinxes were seized by the Hyksos from cities of the Middle Kingdom and then transported to their capital Avaris where they were reinscribed with the names of their new owners and adorned their palace. [161] Seven of those sphinxes are known, all from Tanis, and now mostly located in the Cairo Museum.
History of a provincial sanctuary in the Middle Kingdom"). He subsequently taught as a lecturer at this university until his death. [1] Throughout his career, Detlef Franke researched mainly the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt. [1] His last project was the creation of a catalog of the stelae of the Middle Kingdom housed in the British Museum. [2]
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