고령지역 출토 막새기와로 본 통일신라기의 지역양상

Abstract

The Goryeong area, located on the mid-western part of the Naktong River, is a place where various remains and relics dating from the Bronze Age to the Chosun dynasty have been found. The existence of these relics indicates the continued presence of human communities there. Research on the region has focused on artifacts from the Great Gaya kingdom, but it is difficult to learn about local life at that time, as there are few historical records about the culture and life in the region from the collapse of the kingdom until the time of the Unified Silla Kingdom. This article aims to shed light on the local culture of the ancient city of Great Gaya, which has remained in obscurity due to a lack of historical records, by unveiling the characteristics of the relics and identifying the time when the relics were produced. The production of roof-end tiles in the Great Gaya towns in Goryeong is presumed to have been concentrated at the site of a major Buddhist temple at 30-10, Jisan-ri in the late 7th through 8th centuries. This research identifies the possible existence of a state-run Buddhist temple in the ancient city of Great Gaya and provides new explanations about the remains and relics in the Great Gaya town in the Unified Silla period. Though there was no record of the Goryeong area in the post-Unified Silla period, this research indicates the possibility of its existence based on evidence from the roof-endtiles excavated from the area. The Goryeong region might, in fact, have been astrategic point in the Silla Kingdoms in seven before the 8th century, when King Gyeongdeok(742-765) rechristened the place. Additionally, the temple constructed in the area might have occupied a significant status at that time. Among the Goryeong relics are convex tiles, prevalent in the Jisan-riarea, with a design pattern similar to that of the roof-endtiles excavated in Gyeongju, the capital city of Unified Silla, although different from them in shape. Evidence from these tiles indicates a possibility that the locally end emictiles were produced in each region after the Silla’s unification of the three kingdoms.