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`This earthenware, found in 1973 near Michu Royal Tomb in Kyongju, is an artifact made in the Old Shilla Kingdom Period. Pieces of cart-shaped earthenware with two cup-like things between the wheels had been found before it, but this is the first and only earthenware realistically representing a cart that has ever been found. The body of the cart, placed on two big wheels, is designed to be nailed and fixed to a wall. The two long pulling handles that it originally had attached to the front has been broken off and is now missing. Also missing is the axle that connects the wheels, but the cart will roll if the wheels are connected by a wooden axle. The Ministry of Communications issues this postage stamp in order to provide an occasion for us all to remind ourselves of the artistic sense of our ancestors represented in the earthenware of the Old Shilla Kingdom Period.`