An Analysis of the Carpet Featuring a Seated Woman Figure Preserved in the Art Gallery of Ahadzadeh from a Trans-Textual Perspective

The pictures of women in pictorial carpets were mostly woven in the form of mythological figures or images of European women in the Qajar era. Among these carpets influenced by both of discourses there is a carpet with a woven image in a seating position, which is preserved in the ‘Ahadzadeh Gallery’. This work is highly similar to the carpet of the queen of Armenia. It is also influenced by the ‘world carpet’ in which world is placed on the back of the cow-fish.Considering that this carpet is inspired by carpets with a mythological concept and picture of a woman, therefore, in this study the relationship between different texts is being addressed. The research also aims to review and study the connections between the England's ‘Queen carpet’ and the ‘world carpet’ with the carpet preserved in the ‘Ahadzadeh Gallery’; the study targets the following question 1. how the relationship between these carpets could be justified, considering the European and mythological concepts behind those two carpets? 2. What changes have occurred in the process of establishing these relationships? This study is performed based on a descriptive-comparative research method and analyzes outcomes according to the hyper-textuality concept of Genet. The findings of the research indicate that there are two kind of relationship between the existing texts of hypotext and hypertext, 1. Imitative or homotextuaity relationships and 2. Changed relationship. The relationship between the first and third text is kind of ‘hypertextuality’ and the relationship between the second and third text is kind of ‘intertextuality’. Also there is a transtextuality between the first and the third texts as there has been a change in both the style and the content of the text, as the new text does not only addresses one discourse, but also interpret a connection between the two discourses of Archo-Eropean, and the target carpet has acquired a new identity.