Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes

In the Alhambra, a high stucco frieze in the upper gallery of the south portico of the Patio de los Arrayanes. The drawing in Jones and Goury is probably inaccurate.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• Contains one square.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 45°.
• There are four non-regular reflective tiles.
• The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 121 polygons.

1. Revised by Tony Lee (Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes, Spain. No photograph available) of Owen Jones and Jules Goury. Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra..., London, 1837. [jones2] {2 v. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 60 cm.} Available on Internet.

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