Inscription from a jade plaque engraved with the text of the imperial edict issued by Qin Shihuangdi ordering standardization of weights and measures throughout the newly unified empire; a forgery. 始皇帝廿六年詔書多以銅為之,見福開森一千八十八頁。此拓簽題云為玉版,則未見著錄,且字體軟弱,疑偽作。此詔版成長方形。四角有四個圓孔。
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