A Study on the Structure and the owners of the Royal Tombs of the Goryeo Dynasty

고려왕릉의 구조 및 능주(陵主) 검토

There remain many royal tombs of the Goryeo Dynasty in Gaeseong and Ganghwa. During the Goryeo Dynasty, these royal tombs were taken over tradition of tomb construction style from previous generation, and they completed their own inventive style. Furthermore they handed down those style to the Joseon Dynasty. The area of tomb was divided into 3 or 4 steps, and stone figures and T-shaped houses for sacrifice were arranged on each steps. It was the stone chamber of lateral opening style which had an entrance to southward, and it was formed as a rectangular box-shaped with a pile of stone walls and a flat ceiling. There was a coffin stand in the middle of floor, and traditional bricks were around them. The wall side and ceiling had been whitewashed and painted pictures. These are general characteristics for the tomb construction style of the Goryeo Dynasty. By the way, we can notice a number of features except those general things with inspection in detail. In early days, we confirmed 1step-parallel fulcrum ceiling, coffin stand of all in one stone, bier of burial artifact, and mural of plant material as a set, but they were changed as flat ceiling, Red-stone wall with rectangular stone, coffin stand set as stone pillar through the period of transitional form as of in the late 12th century. In case of several royal tombs, the fragments of king's epitaph which were confirmed from tombs could be defined owners clearly, and there were considerable timing difference between the large numbers of celadons which were excavated with the fragments of king's epitaph and recording chronologically of stone chamber structure. The reason for timing difference is that posterity artifacts were buried through repairing courses by occasion of destruction caused by robbing of the royal tombs. Meanwhile I inferred the existing hypothesis about owners of royal tombs and autonym ones in comparison the burial spot direction of hypothesis ones and outcomes of excavation. Therethrough, some hypothesis about owners of royal tombs such as Myung-neung which was assumed as tomb of the King Choongmok were not correct.

개성과 강화에는 다수의 고려왕릉이 남아 있다. 이 왕릉들은 전대의 능제적 전통을 이어받아 고려만의 독창적인 능제를 완성, 조선왕릉에 전승시켰다. 고려왕릉의 일반적인 특징은 우선 능역을 3~4단으로 구획하고 능제에 맞추어 각 단에 석물과 정자각을 배치하였다. 석실은 입구를 남쪽에 두고 있으며, 벽석은 수직으로 쌓아올렸고, 천장은 평천장이다. 석실바닥에는 중앙에 관대를 놓고, 그 주변에 전돌을 깔았다. 벽면과 천장에는 회칠을 하고 그림을 그렸다. 그런데 석실내부의 구조를 자세히 살펴보면, 이런 일반적인 특징 외에 몇 가지 세부적인 차이가 발견된다. 고려초기에는 1단 평행고임천장과 통돌관대, 유물부장대 그리고 식물소재의 벽화가 조합되어 나타나며, 이는 과도기적 형태를 거쳐 12세기후반을 기점으로 평천장, 장대석재벽석, 석주형석재조립관대로 변하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 한편, 몇몇 왕릉은 출토된 시책(諡冊) 편을 통해 능주를 명확히 규정할 수 있으며, 석실내부에서 출토된 청자는 해당 왕릉의 축조연대와 상당한 시기차가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 이점은 도굴 등 왕릉의 파괴로 인한 후대 보수과정에서 당대 유물이 매납된 것으로 판단된다. 마지막으로 기록상 왕릉의 장지방향과 발굴결과를 비교검토하여 능주가 누구인지를 추적해 보았다. 그 결과 충목왕명릉 등 일부 왕릉은 능주의 비정이 잘못되었음을 확인할 수 있었다.