Bronze seal cast with “Zhongda jiangjun jiaowei zhang”, Xin dynasty (9-23)

Bronze seal cast with “Zhongda jiangjun jiaowei zhang”, Xin dynasty (9-23)

• Image Number: K1A000749N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Xin dynasty
• Category: Bronzes
• Function: emperor’s seal
• Material: Mineral/Metal/Bronze
• Description:
  Tortoise button is like the characteristics of the New Mang Period. The printed “Zhongda General’s Lieutenant’s Seal” has seven words in white, divided into three lines, without borders; In Wang Mang’s time, he once held the positions of front, rear, left, right and middle big Sima, and granted the pastoral titles of each state as “Grand General”, and the county governor as “Xiaowei” (see the Hanshu Biography of Wang Mang). This may be the official seal of “Xiaowei” under the “Grand General” of “Zhongda Sima”.