Roman mosaic, Timgad

All the shapes in the Timgad version are heavily ornamented, but the underlying pattern, shown here, is clear.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 4*2 (p4g).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• Contains three squares.
• Contains five regular two-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 45°.
• Contains one regular octagon.
• The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 333 polygons.

1. Pl 178 (f) (Timgad) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le décor géométrique de la mosaïque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}

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