傳 고령 출토 가야금관의 출토지

Abstract

National Treasure No.138 Gaya Golden Crown was designated as the title of ‘Former Goryeong Golden Crown and Accessories’ on December 21st in 1971. The place that holds it presently is LEEUM which is previously known as Ho-Am Art Museum. So far, the find-spot of Gaya Golden Crown has been introduced as ‘Former Goryeong’, and it has been known as one of the articles excavated from ‘Goryeong Jisan-dong Ancient Tombs’. Jisan-dong No.45 and No.44 Tombs are often pointed out, but this has not been published in journals or such. Some have suggested it should have been excavated from ‘Dalseong Hyeonpung’, but this has failed to receive favorable responses. There are limitations that Gaya Golden Crown is an illegally excavated article and there is lack of ground materials, so it has been hard to fix the exact excavation of it firmly. As a way to solve this problem, this author compared the Golden Crown and some accessories designated along with it with articles excavated from Jisan-dong No.45 Tomb. According to the results, the hemispheric accessories that LEEUM holds and cucumber seed-shaped accessories are exactly the same as those found in Jisan-dong No.45 Tomb in terms of the forms and sizes. Furthermore, the golden earrings, too, have very similar forms. Therefore, it is highly possible that Gaya Golden Crown was excavated from Goryeong Jisan-dong Ancient Tombs, particularly Jisan-dong No.45 Tomb. Yet, as far as the fact that Gaya Golden Crown and such are illegally excavated articles are concerned, it is even more possible that they were excavated from Jisan-dong No.44 Tomb in consideration of the forms.