Yeollyeong Group Yi Hwon Spirit-path Stele

A sindobi is a stele recording the lifetime achievements of a king or high official, erected to the southeast of his tomb; the subject of this stele is Prince Yeollyeong, the sixth son of King Sukjong. Prince Yeollyeong was born in 1699, the twenty-fifth year of King Sukjong; his given name was Hwon (昍) and his courtesy name was Munsuk (文叔). He held the post of Dochonggwan of the Owidochongbu, the Five Military Commands Headquarters, but this was an honorary post carrying no real power. When King Sukjong was suffering from illness, Prince Yeollyeong nursed him devotedly, but died young at the age of twenty-one; King Sukjong then ordered that a stele be erected specially in his memory. The stele consists of a large tortoise-shaped base supporting a body of black marble, topped with a roof-shaped capstone. The inscription was composed by Yi I-myeong, who served as Right State Councillor under King Sukjong; the text was written in standard script by Jo Tae-gu, and the title was written in horizontal script by Min Jin-won. The stele was erected in 1720, the forty-sixth year of King Sukjong. It originally stood in the grounds of Daebang Elementary School in Dongjak-gu, but was moved to its present location in 1967.

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Where it is

Region

Nowon-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산