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Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2003. Gyeongju, the capital of the kingdoms of Old Silla (57 B.C.–676 A.D.) and Unified Silla (676–935), is dotted with impressive mounds of royal tombs. Their occupants range from kings, queens, and princes to relatives and nobility blessed into the inner circles of power.
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The Silla kings and queens were buried at Geumseong (modern Gyeongju) in large earth mounds containing stone-lined tombs. The contents of these tombs were protected from the elements by the technique of applying clay between layers of stones under the earth mound. Even more importantly, though, the riches within were saved for posterity by the Sill...
Scholars note some points of similarity, and therefore possible influence on the Silla crown designs, to gold crowns found in the Black Sea area, Bactria, and China. The other two kingdoms of the Three Kingdoms Period (Baekje and Goguryeo) also made crowns, in the latter case using gilt-bronze. The Silla gold crowns generally have three parts proba...
The Silla tombs contained not only crowns but all manner of gold jewellery such as earrings, chain necklaces, girdles, and even shoes and caps, which would have been silk-lined for greater comfort. There are also a staggering 20,000 glass beads recovered from the tombs. Earrings can have a distinctly thick, hollow, tubular upper part from which han...
There are still many unanswered questions regarding the five Silla crowns. One of those is who actually wore them. A king would seem an obvious answer, but the crowns all date to the mid-5th to mid-6th century CE, a period in which the Silla had only four kings. There may be many more crowns to be discovered, indeed, this seems likely as another 15...
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Silla is traditionally believed to have been founded by Hyŏkkŏse in 57 bce. By the 2nd century ce, a distinct confederation of local tribes was definitely in existence in the southeastern portion of the Korean peninsula.
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Silla began as "Saro-guk", a statelet within the 12-member confederacy known as Jinhan. Saro-guk consisted of six clans later known as the Six Clans of Jinhan (진한 6부; 辰韓六部) from Gojoseon. According to Korean records, Silla was founded by Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla in 57 BCE, around present-day Gyeongju. Hyeokgeose is said to have ...
Dec 6, 2023 · by Dr. Kristen Loring Brennan. Crown, second half of 5th century (Silla kingdom), gold and jade, 27.3 cm high, excavated from the north mound of Hwangnam Daechong Tomb, National Treasure 191 (National Museum of Korea, Seoul; photo: Cultural Heritage Administration, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) All that glitters was gold in ancient Korea.
Silla was among the three, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, that made up the famous Three Kingdoms of Korea. The Kingdom was founded by Hyeokgyeose of Silla of the Park family. The Silla Dynasty was ruled by Gyeongju Kim clan for 586 years, Miryang Park clan for 232 years, and Wolseong Seok clan form 172 years.
