House of Livia in the Forum at Rome and also at Italica in Southern Spain.
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is *632 (p6m).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 30°.
- Contains one equilateral triangle.
- Contains one regular hexagon.
- There is one non-regular reflective tile.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is edge-to-edge.
- As drawn, contains about 238 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Page 54 (Colouring not known) of Robert Field. Geometric Patterns from Roman Mosaics, Tarquin Publications, 1996. ISBN 090621263. [field1] {Gives sources of several interesting Roman patterns.}
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