(Left) Tomb98, north mound: goldjewelry in situ; (Above) Sectionof burial chamber. yao near Nanking. This center flourished during the fourth to sixth centuries after Christ. The bottle represents the only Chinese pottery to be discovered in a Silla tomb so far. A striped glass goblet probably manufactured in the Mediterranean region was also found. The husband of this royal female apparently died earlier as evidenced by the sequence of earth strata at the joining part of the two mounds. He wore a bronze gilt crown and a gold girdle which had fewer pendants than the one worn by his wife. The excavators, however, uncovered an additional pit full of iron weapons and pottery vessels in the south mound. A late Roman glass cup and broken ewer mended with thin gold wire were among the treasured burial goods. Stylistic studies of the burial goods have dated this part of the tomb to the late fifth century after Christ. 311