- Nationality/Period
Unified Silla Period
- Provenance
Chilgok-gun
- Materials
Glass/ Gemstone - Glass
- Category
clothes - Accessories - Others
- Designation
Treasure 325-6
- Accession Number
Sinsu 337
Discovered in 1959 during repair work on the Five-story Brick Pagoda in Songnimsa Temple in Chilgok-gun, North Gyeongsang-do Province, this pavilion-shaped miniature stupa is one of the sarira reliquaries, including a glass cup and bottle, contained within a tortoise-shaped stone chest stored in the brick pagoda. These glass beads discovered alongside other sarira reliquaries within a tortoise-shaped stone chest found inside the pagoda are artifacts from Unified Silla created to honor valuable Buddhist relics. They are blue-tinted and threaded tightly together to form a necklace. A cluster of larger glass beads is hung from it like a pendant.