Alhambra, Mirador de Lindaraja

Ceramic mosaic panels on east and west arch jambs at the entrance to the Mirador de Lindaraja. The style, in which a larger pattern is outlined with colour and specific tile shapes, resembles similar mosaic dados in the Alcazar at Seville, and square panels on the south wall of the Salon de Comares. In fact, these mosaics in the mirador seem somewhat at odds with the rest of the tiled decoration here; the floor between the two jambs is a quite different pattern, involving rosettes with 16 and 8 rays, now much worn away, but the original colours are still visible at each end, next to the jambs.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 2*22 (cmm).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 22.5°.
• Contains 33 regular 8-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 90°.
• Contains 9 regular 8-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 45°.
• There are 11 non-regular reflective tiles (including one kite and one dart).
• The tiling satisfies the two-colour condition with straight cross-overs, but interlace counts not determined.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 4017 polygons.

1. Photo by David Wade: SPA 1013 (Alhambra, Mirador de Lindaraja, Spain) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}(1354-62AD, 755-63AH)

• Wade photo SPA 1013

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