ABSTRACT The Ardabil carpet in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is one of the most-studied in the world. This paper takes a non-traditional perspective: that the carpet has been the site of transcultural reframings that reveal ambiguities and conflicts in attitudes to Islamic material culture. It examines the carpet as part of the discourse on Persia constructed by non-Persians. It looks in particular at the storytelling that developed around the carpet, and what those stories tell us about the cultures that created them. From the account of the physical recreation of two carpets into one, the narrative of ‘The Holy Carpet’, its positioning as ‘the world's finest carpet’, and its changing display in the museum, to its afterlives as a replica, a gold-standard for the carpet-market, and an icon of Persia, the paper examines the motives for, and response to, these conflicting framings.

中文翻译：

---

发明 Ardabil 地毯：波斯文物的挪用和改造案例研究

摘要 伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆的阿尔达比勒地毯是世界上研究最多的地毯之一。本文采用非传统观点：地毯一直是跨文化重构的场所，它揭示了人们对伊斯兰物质文化态度的含糊不清和冲突。它将地毯作为非波斯人构建的关于波斯的话语的一部分进行检查。它特别着眼于围绕地毯发展的讲故事，以及这些故事告诉我们有关创造它们的文化的内容。从将两张地毯的实体娱乐合二为一的叙述，“圣地毯”的叙述，它作为“世界上最好的地毯”的定位，它在博物馆中不断变化的展示，到它作为复制品的来世，一个金色的——地毯市场的标准，波斯的象征，