• 한국문화재보존과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.99-107
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• 2006

• 보존과학연구
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• s.29
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• pp.111-124
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• 2008

Gold case which is called sarari container was excavated from Wangheungsaji of Buyeo in October 2007. This case did not contain sarira, but was filled with clear liquid. This study focused on component analysis of the liquid which had filled sarira container, because we didn't know if this case had not originally contained sarira or not. It is said that original sarira can be melted by a some liquid in this case. So, many kinds of samples which are liquid, soil and ground water, was collected from a inner and outer of sarira container, and analyzed using a IC, ICP-MS, GC-MS and SEM-EDS. As a result of analysis, all of the elements composition was identified by general components of soil and ground water. Especially, phosphate which is chemical element to consist of human bone, did not found in this liquid.

• Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.109-125
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• 2008

Recently, there has been an increase in excavation studies of wood pagodas from the Three Kingdoms and Unified Shilla periods and new data related to wood pagoda erection are being found bringing about progress in research on this field. In other words, studies on wooden pagodas in Korea were composed mainly of flat, axis construction techniques and sarijangeomgu, but by acquiring new data, it has now become possible to study not only the stylobate construction procedure and transition, but also studies on restoring wooden pagodas. Furthermore, pagoda sites similar to this were found in China and Japan as well, making it possible to make comparative studies among ancient wooden pagodas possible. In this paper, the main remains were set as Baekjae wooden pagodas, which were the most frequently studied and among the wooden pagodas, the simcho (central base stone) and sarira housing locations. In result, simcho can be found changing its position from underground ${\rightarrow}$ halfway underground ${\rightarrow}$ above ground. Baekjae wooden pagodas up until the mid sixth century located at Neungsan-ri saji (AD 567) and Wangheungsaji (AD 577) had its simcho located underground and later it was constructed halfway underground and then above ground. It was confirmed that in the 7th century, it became customary to place above ground as seen in the Jaeseoksaji (AD639) and Hwangnyongsaji (AD645) wooden pagoda sites. The sarira was usually located on the south side of the simcho, but gradually changed to the center. In particular, sarira were combined in the simcho in the mid sixth century at the Wangheungsaji. This is approximately 11 years earlier than the Bijosa (AD 588) simcho found in Japan and this was not found even in the simcho of wooden pagodas in Yeongnyeongsa (AD 516) and Jopaengseong temple (AD 535~561) of China showing that the Wangheungsaji simcho was the earliest of its kind.