Alhambra, Torre de las Damas

The ceramic mosaics remaining in the Partal are much damaged, but those that remain show an elegance and delicacy of colouring which contrast with the often vibrant effects achieved elsewhere in the Alhambra. Colours are white, black, blue and turquoise-green. The present pattern occurs on the north sides of the NE and NW corners, those furthest away from the portico entrance.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 22.5°.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
• Contains one regular 16-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 45°.
• There are 15 non-regular reflective tiles (including 2 kites and one dart) and one reflective pair.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has two finite interlaces and no infinite interlace with straight cross-overs.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 1093 polygons.

1. Photo by David Wade: SPA 0719 (Alhambra, Torre de las Damas, Spain) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}(1354-62AD, 755-63AH)

• Wade photo SPA 0719

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