Seal with the Inscription "True Seal of the Emperor"
This seal is the only extant example that bears the characters meaning "emperor." The design of squares surrounding each characters was popular during the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC).
- Cultural property designation
- Quantity
- Artist
- Period/Century
- Qin–Western Han dynasty, 3rd–2nd century BC
- Country/Origin
- China
- Excavation site
- Material
- Clay
- Size
- Inscriptions
- Donor
- Gift of Mr. Abe Fusajirō
- Collection reference no.
- TJ-3061
- Genre
- Asian Archaeology
- Category
- Archaeology > Media > Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain
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