Стр. 165 - Azərbaycan xalçaları

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ing to the late Bronze Age that were found in kurgans in the Ganjachay valley and in
Dashkasan.
On the wide brown background border of the carpet, rhombic gyols are depicted
that are smaller than those in the middle field, with red and white zigzags on the edges
and surrounded with red zigzags. Octagonal elements decorated with double triangle
motifs inside are placed in the center of the gyols designed with zigzag motifs while
the edges of the octagonal elements are shaped in rectangular and rhombic forms.
Geometric ornaments are the most specific ornaments for Azerbaijani carpets. In fact,
Azerbaijan is one of the countries
where abstract-geometric images
developed during the Bronze Age
are preserved in the same styles.
The triangular, rectangular, hexago-
nal, and octagonal ornaments de-
picted on Azerbaijani carpets were
also widely used on ancient ceramic
products. Triangular border stripes
designed with squares and rhombs
on the sides or similar triangular im-
ages on top of dishes are character-
istic of ceramic products belonging
to the middle and late Bronze Age,
as well as the early Stone Age in
Azerbaijan. These elements were en-
countered on the Bronze and early
Stone Age (late second millennium-
early first millennium BC) dishes
discovered inside graves in Ganja,
Karabakh, Gedebey, Nakhchivan,
and other regions. On both sides,
the wide border of the carpet is sur-
rounded with madakhils with small
rhombic motifs designed with a red
chainlike arrangement inside. The
edges of the madakhils are finished
with incomplete lines of white, yel-
low, and red edges. Despite its sim-
ple color palette, the different har-
monization and placement of colors
was created using a traditional ar-
rangement.