Roman mosaic, Nea Paphos

The octagons have been made regular here and minor ornamentation does not appear.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 4*2 (p4g).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• Contains one square.
• Contains one regular octagon.
• There are one non-regular reflective pairs and no tiles with no mirror image.
• The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 151 polygons.

1. Pl 166 (d) (Nea Paphos) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le décor géométrique de la mosaïque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}

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