Haman_Mokgan.jpg
Summary
Description Haman Mokgan.jpg |
English:
These are sixth-century Korean
mokgan
(wooden tablets) excavated from Mount Seongsan Fortress, Haman, South Korea.
Mokgan
were used for administrative and statistical purposes when paper was unavailable. The Mount Seongsan
mokgan
, excavated and studied at length beginning in 2007, take up a full half of the total Korean
mokgan
corpus and may include the first direct attestation of the Korean language in history. These particular twenty-three tablets were found during the seventeenth round of excavations, from 2014 to 2016. See
Lee, Seungjae (September 25, 2017)
木簡에 기록된 古代 韓國語 (The Old Korean Language Inscribed on Wooden Tablets)
,
Seoul
: Ilchogak
ISBN
:
978-89-337-0736-4
.
for a fuller discussion of this valuable data on Old Korean.
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Date | |
Source | 함안 성산산성 출토 목간, 6세기 신라의 율령체계 확인 |
Author | Picture by Gaya National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage; actual tablets by unknown sixth-century Korean scribe |
Per precedent set by File:Manuscript from Shanghai Museum 1.jpg , this image of wooden slips constitutes a 2D manuscript.
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