Gold Cap from Cheonmachong Tomb

A Silla cap-shaped crown found in Cheonmachong Tomb, worn as the inner crown. Cheonmachong Tomb was known as Gyeongju tomb no. 155 until its excavation in 1973 found, with a gold crown, bracelets and many other objects, the painting of a heavenly horse (cheonma) that gave it its name. A gold cap is a kind of cap worn inside a gold crown. This one, 16 cm high and 19 cm wide, was found between the coffin and the pit of grave goods at the head end outside it. It is made of four sheets of gold of different shapes, semicircular at the top and widening downward. The bottom edge is bowed, with both ends drooping. The upper part is finely pierced with close-set eyebrow-shaped curves, with small round holes between, and dots punched in the remaining space; two sheets were joined and a thick band put round them. Below, it is pierced with cloud patterns, and another sheet has T shapes and small holes. It seems to have been sewn to a cloth cap on the head.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Treasure · 국보