Highlights
Painting of the Tomb Owner Couple
  • Nationality/Period

    Goguryeo Kingdom

  • Materials

    Paper

  • Category

    Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - mural painting - copy

  • Dimensions

    259.0×287.0cm

  • Accession Number

    K76

This copy of the mural painted on the northern wall in the burial chamber of the Ssangyeongchong Tomb depicts an aristocratic couple, probably the tomb’s occupants, seated in a palatial house attended by their male and female servants and a pair of Black Tortoises. These symbolic creatures have a large, clearly delineated shell and a long neck covered with neatly arranged scales.