경주 서악동고분군의 조성과 의의

Abstract

The Ancient Tombs of Seoak-dong, Gyeongju, is a group of tombs from the Silla Dynasty bearing comparison with the Ancient Tombs in the North of Wolseong Fortress, and they can be called the Ancient Tombs in the West of Wolseong Fortress. The owners of Tombs 1-4 within the premise can be distinguished centered on Tomb 1 and Tomb 4, and a kinship is presumed between them. In addition, Tomb 1, Tomb 4, and the Tomb of King Muyeol appear to have the same graveyard in terms of the scale, and it is presumed to have expressed the royal lineage by arranging the tombs of King Beopheung, Crown Prince Dongryun, King Jinji, and King Jinheung from top to bottom. The reason they prepared a new graveyard in the west of Wolseong Fortress when the royal tombs were constructed after King Beopheung of Silla is presumably to express the lineage of the successors of the royal authority by constructing <Seowon (西原)>, the graveyard that visually displays the lineage along with the external scale that borders on the stone-mounded wooden chamber tomb, which was constructed on a flatland, forming a massive tumulus on the mountain ridge using the natural features while royal tombs and noble tombs were mixed in previous graveyards. Unlike the tomb of Kim In-mun constructed in the same period, the tomb of Kim Yang, buried in the later generation, was added to the royal graveyard, which appears to reflect the circumstances at the time the tombs were constructed. In other words, the tomb was constructed to make a display to emphasize that he is a descendant of King Muyeol and reflect the purpose of constructing his tomb inside the family's graveyard and his position in the royal lineage. This shows that the consciousness of lineage of the people had continued within Silla society at the time around when the Ancient Tombs of Seoak-dong, which includes the Tomb of King Muyeol.