Bronze seal cast with “Guan nei hou yin”, late Eastern Han dynasty

Bronze seal cast with “Guan nei hou yin”, late Eastern Han dynasty

• Image Number: K1A000634N000000000PAC
• Dynasty: Eastern Han dynasty
• Category: Bronzes
• Function: emperor’s seal
• Material: Mineral/Metal/Bronze
• Description:
  Tortoise button, printed with four characters in white: “Seal of the Marquis in the Pass”; In the Han Dynasty, the nobility was granted a title of marquis, and those who lived in the capital without a state capital were called “Marquis in the Pass”.