Abstract. In the article, the image of the concubine Dilorom depicted in Dehlavi's "Hasht Bihisht" and Navoi's "Saba'i Sayyor" epics is analyzed from a comparative point of view. Special attention was paid to the ancient roots of the image of Dilorom and the process of its gradual transfer to fiction. Emphasis was also placed on such phenomena as the improvement of this image in fiction, the transfer from folk oral creation to written literature and vice versa from written literature to folk oral creation.