靈光 水洞鏡으로 본 被葬者의 性格 = Socio-political Status of the Buried in a Pit Burial at Su-dong, Yeonggwang Based on the Two Imitative Bronze Mirrors

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Korean archaeological circles has regarded a bronze mirror as a critical status symbol during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Korean Peninsula. Bronze mirrors have been also considered as a standard of chronometric dating of the archaeological sites yielding them because the types of the bronze mirrors well reflect temporal shift. In particular, Chinese mirrors are one of the artifacts well reflecting international relationships among China, Korea, and Japan at that time. In the Korean Peninsula, mirrors imitating Chinese mirrors began to appear before and after the Christian era. While these mirrors imitating Chinese mirrors have been reported mostly in Gyeongsang provinces, a couple of bronze mirrors imitating Chinese mirrors were unearthed at Su-dong pit burial site in Yeonggwang along with a bronze implement with bird design. The discovery of the mirrors provided Korean archaeological circle a critical momentum in that they were bronze mirrors firstly reported in the Honam Region which provided an opportunity to study socio-political stratification or differentiation and international relationships at that time.
While it was impossible to trace the original mirrors which two mirrors attempted to imitate, they were considered to be locally manufactured. Triple slender saw-tooth pattern design on the mirror “a” is considered to reflect knobbed mirror tradition of the former period. While the mirror “a” and mirror “b” represented characteristicsof the imitative bronze mirrors of the South and North Gyeongsang provinces, respectively. The fact that these two mirrors were furnished in a burial reflected furnishing tradition of the knobbed mirrors of the former period. Based on the bronze implements with bird design and two mirrors, the person buried in the pit burial might have a position related to ritual service rite. Along with the bronze implements with bird design, these two mirrors might be implements for the ritual service. While the person buried in the burial seemed to recognize the meaning of the Chinese mirror as a status symbol to symbolize authority, he did not have access to original Chinese mirrors. Instead, he manufactured and possessed imitative bronze mirrors for justifying his authority. While clear archaeological evidence to show direct trade or exchange with the Chinese Han Dynasty was not produced at the Su-dong site, these two bronze mirrors imitating Chinese mirrors are sound evidence that population at the Su-dong site already acknowledged the Chinese Han culture and there might be international trade or exchange with China, in particular, Nangnang commandery. Based on the typology of the bronze implements, the date of the site is belonging between the late 1st centure and the early 2nd century A.D..

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 머리말
• 2. 遺構와 出土遺物
• 3. 水洞鏡의 檢討와 被葬者의 性格
• 4. 맺음말
• 參考文獻
• (Abstract)