Roman mosaic, Canosa
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 442 (p4).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 90°.
- There are no non-regular reflective pairs and one tile with no mirror image.
- The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace with straight cross-overs.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 92 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Figure 60-2, page 143 (Western tomb tower, Kharraqan, Iran) of Lazar Izrailevich Rempel. Arkhitekturnyi ornament Uzbekistana: ..., Tashkent, 1961. [rempel] {602p}(1093AD, 485AH)
- Plate 18 (Western tomb tower, Kharraqan, Iran) of Sonia P, Seherr-Thoss. Design and color in Islamic architecture; Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Smithsonian Institution, 1968. [seherr] {312p}(1093AD, 485AH)
- Pl 193 (c) (Canosa) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le deÌcor geÌomeÌtrique de la mosaiÌque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}
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