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This study intends to analyze the contents of wooden tablets excavated at the man-made Anapchi Lake(雁鴨池) in Kyongju and make clear the actual state of court duties in unified Silla. It reexamines the Anapchi wooden tablets, which was already unearthed more than thirty years ago, based on two reasons. First, the publication of Korea's Wooden Tablets(『韓國의 古代 木簡』) and the release of infrared photographs have greatly improved the research situation on them. Second, the Anapchi wooden tablets, excavated at the court's pond, are expected to explain the real state of Silla's court duties thatwere not revealed in literal data at all. This study selectively focuses on two types of wooden tablets which record the terms of "josa(助史)" and "mun(門)". In conclusion, main observations can be summed up as follows.
First, in terms of the general characters of the wooden tablets, the most conspicuous was their close relationship with Silla court duties, because they were scrapped at Anapchi, the court pond. Second, it has been surmised that the tablets were made in the reign of King Gyeongdeok in the second half of the eighth century, based on the era name of T'ang, the sexagenary cycle, the name of an office, setaek, recorded in the tablets. An additional examination of new data, which recorded the sexagenary cycle but hitherto were disregarded, evidences validity of this view. Third, among wooden tablets excavated at Anapchi, five recorded an official title, josa. Five kinds of josa, that is dosu josa(徒水助史), gahwagun josa(加火軍助史), moktobeol josa(木陶別助史), sanggeon josa(尙巾助史), and gwanjang josa (관獐助史), appearand include words meaning water, fire, such vessels as wooden vessels, ceramic vessels, and earthen vessels, clothing, and such animals as the roe. This indicates that at that time the josa performed various kinds of miscellaneous services, which were implied in these words, at the court. Fourth, the josa were assistants to the sa(史), understrappers, who were employed by the court, performing menial services to provide the court with daily necessaries. Thanks to their services, court agencies, composed of a small numbers of officials, could attend to their own businesses. Fifth, some wooden tablets contain records on gatekeepers who guarded such palace gates and buildings as dong-mun(東門), gaeeui-mun(開義門), buk-mun of u-gung(隅宮北門), gakgung(閣宮), and on the duties of setaek(洗宅) officials charged with chaeksa-mun(策事門), the entrance, onso-mun(溫少門) and sayeok-mun(思易門). These records suggest the concrete looks of Silla's court guard.