Roman mosaic, Brescia

The Roman original has ornamentation within the octagonal shapes.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 442 (p4).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• 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 52 polygons.

1. Figure R 8b of Daniel Sheets Dye. Chinese Lattice Designs, Dover, 1937. ISBN 048623096. [dye] {Important book topic.}
2. Page 28, Figure 7C (Roman Mosaic from Combe St Nicholas, Somerset, Colouring not known) of D S Neal. Roman mosaics in Britain, Society for the Promotion of Roman studies, 1981. ISBN 090776414. [neal] {Beautiful publication.}
3. Pl 166 (b) (Brescia, Museum of Archaeology) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le décor géométrique de la mosaïque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}

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