What attracted my attention most was small tiny earthen statues in Gyeongju National Museum.
While arranging the photos taken in the museum, I noticed that there were lots of small tiny earthen things.
These things had been out of people’s interest for long time.
There were not so many Earthen statues which were in perfect condition.
Lots of them were broken due to the material problem.
It would be natural that the earthen things were broken easily.
Among those earthen statues, I’d like to introduce 3 kinds in this posting.
First thing is really small statue as below.
Interest thing is this small figure looks like wear a turban.
It was marvelous for me that there was a man wearing turban in Shilla dynasty, the end of Eurasia more than 2000 years ago.
I posted some days ago about the contact and exchange between Shilla dynasty and Persia.
This could be a evidence of my posting.
If this figure is not a Persian, is it a Indian ?
What do you think ?
Secondly, what I’d like to introduce to you is the figures of cavalrymen.
These cavalrymen figures mean that Shill had a close relationship with horse.
It is believed that people who had been lived in Korean peninsula had came from Central Asia.
It means that Shilla was originally nomad.
Of course, every culture have it’s relics relating to cavalry culture.
In the past, horse was a usual transportation mean, so it could be told that the cavalry statues was not so special. But in the case of Shilla dynasty, Quantities are different from usual farming culture civilizations.
The nomadic culture seemed to be a source or origin of these lots of figures relating to the cavalry.
What I’d like to show you next are the pieces of ink stone.
You might know about the calligraphy of brush.
The ink was made by rubbing the ink stone on the ink stone.
It seemed like that the ink stone was made by earthenware instead of stone.
What I saw in the museum was the earthenware.
Here, I like to show you is the legs of the ink stone.
There were lots of legs of the ink stone.
And impressive thing was each legs were so delicately carved.
What I interested in was why the patterns on the leg of ink stone were looked like Demon.
All explanation board named these faces of Demon’s face.
But I don’t agree with that explanation.
Nobody had wanted to carve Demon’s face on the ink stone.
On the contrary, I think this face was carved to protect evil and demon.
In this point, this face seemed quite different from demon’s face.
In my point of view, it looks like a face of dragon, and so on.
Anyway, let’s enjoy the delicate carvings.
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Wow the mall tiny earthen statues in Gyeongju National Museum looks great and reminds me of my visit to Berlin Museum. The good thing is to appreciate and understand the meaning of all these work of arts. Thanks for sharing and thank you for your prudent comment on my post. More success to you.
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Dragon world.
I love korea history
I think these earthenware came from Asian countries as a carving or as a matter of financial value from traders in silk route.
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How can anyone be sure that it is the face of a demon? It might be an animal or a representation of god or a protector. Interesting history tho. Thanks for showing us!
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Wow this small earthen statues are very interesting! Thank you for sharing the history of this amazing statues!
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This is awesome! 2000 years, that blows my mind. Think about where we were as humans at that time! We have come a long ways but im not sure in what direction. Thanks for the read! I'll be following!
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Tiny Tiny Cute earthen statues! Why were they made for? What is the history?
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Looks creepy. But we will not understand if we do not understand the history.
Nice photos and precious information..
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It needs a keen power of observation to notice the things you have discussed in this post. Not everybody can understand these things. A very informative post!
Korea is a beautiful country.
Is it a form of the past kingdom
Amazing carvings.
Wow you are still moving along with the museum am getting interested in Korean history
wow this arts looking very different
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great history and very nice photography.
Nice statue... Its history might be interesting thing to be known.
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An interesting story about the sculpture photography you are telling its history. success always for you @slowwalker😊
I think the first one looks like a gingerbread man. It looks like a turban from an Indian. I don't know much about Persians so cant really say. These statues are quite cute and interesting to watch. :)
What kind of material made the small statues ?
Do you know?
I love about history.
You are interested in small things. After reading the post, it seems that I visited the museum
I agree that the faces should chase out demons instead and not be scary!!
Historical evidence, explaining that they had lived long before we lived.
Delicate carvings exquisite workmanship
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Wow, amazing they are still in fairly good shape after all these years. I love stuff like this. It looks like a really fun day. Thanks for sharing your journey!
Some of the artifacts look really simple while the others look really intricate. I can see the passion that was put on to these earthen wares.
The demon face carvings actually look artistic in my opinion.
hi, nice to meet you , friend , really appreciate your post , the photos you take is really like the face of dragon !wonderful pic!
It seems...those little statues are used as props in simulated wars by the shilla dynasty or something else...and obviously there is contact with persia according to the first statue wearing turban..
The historic statue, beautifully tucked away,
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What kind of materials were used in making these statues?
Interesting work us have shown. Thank you very much.
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Thank you for organizing such an exciting walk to the museum. It was very interesting to me. Good luck to you.