Abstract
The Uljin Bongpyeong-bi monument was found in 1989. After the initial founding, it was moved from the site on an excavator, and it was then when a portion of the monument located in the lower section of the monument’s right side was damaged. A piece with several letters on it was detached from the main body. A few days later, the piece was retrieved and now it is glued on to the monument in its original location. And two decades later, it was newly suggested that at the end of line No.1 there seems to be a letter ‘Five (五).’ Studies with several new hypotheses, based upon acknowledging the validity of such suggestion, have also been announced ever since.<BR> The segment in question is where the monument was damaged for natural causes. It does seem like an ‘五’ when illuminated from a particular angle, yet a photographic scan of the segment examined in reverse would reveal that it should not be interpreted as a remnant of a particular letter. Directions of the strokes are not consistent, and depths of (supposedly) inscribed strokes do not match each other either. Therefore the spot in dispute should not be recognized as an inscription of a letter, and the epigraph would be best not interpreted with the thinking that this segment has been featuring ‘五’ or any other particular letter for that matter.
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