신발견 백제의 문자자료에 대한 역주

Translation and Annotation of Baekje’s newly found Corpus of Characters

These relevant remains and artifacts are crucial pieces of information which fills in our gaps of Baekje’s historical period. Among them, the Corpus of Characters not only reveals a clearer picture of that period, but also proves some well-known historical facts to be false. In the repair process of the Stone Pagoda of Miruksa Temple, more than five hundred artifacts were excavated in January 2009, including an enshrined metal record with small crystals set in Sarigong. This metal record sealed with cremated remains was meant to lay the groundwork for the future prosperity of the Baekje Dynasty. The process of housing this artifact was promoted by the Baekje Empress with the establishment of the Buddhist temple in 639. Through this excavation, the establishment date as well as the intention of the Miruksa Temple were verified. The new discoveries have been attracting an academic interest since the information from some of these reports is considerably different from that which is found in “The Heritage of the Three States”. Especially regarding the Sunhwa Princess Story in the Chapter Gi-ei, various opinions have been suggested surrounding its authenticity. In 1990, the Karac Historial Development Institute started working on the interpretation of the written materials which had had an incalculable value. These artifacts began to be unburied from the period of Korea’s liberation and continued to be disintered until that time. In 1992, they issued “inscription of Korean ancient” which contributed a great deal to the studies of Korean ancient history. After the publication, a large amount of ancient scripts were found however, the process of interpretation and annotation was not well organized. For that reason, this paper is written in order to show the newly collected information and offer translated and annotated data which is divided into more distinct categories for the corpus of Characters which are engraved onto stones, metal relics and earthenwaresㆍbricksㆍtiles.