Dongmo

Dongmo, together with the bronze dagger, is one of the artefacts most representative of Korea's Bronze Age, a weapon used for stabbing an enemy. In shape it resembles a sword, but it is made up of two parts, the blade and the socket, and the hollow socket was fitted onto a long wooden shaft for use. Dongmo date from the late period of the slender bronze dagger, between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD; because they appeared much later than the dagger and survive in far smaller numbers, it is difficult to establish their earliest form. A characteristic of Korean dongmo is that the socket is either round or extends directly into the body of the blade, rising as a raised ridge along its length. Lengths range from 20 cm to over 60 cm in some examples, and the prevailing scholarly view is that they were influenced by the state of Yan or the Henan region of China during the Warring States period. They are found mainly at sites belonging to the wooden coffin tomb tradition, and as an element of the slender bronze dagger culture they spread to Japan, giving rise there to the gwangbongdongmo, a distinctive Japanese type of broad-bladed bronze spearhead.

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Where it is

Region

Busanjin-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산