Bourgoin, Plate 42

In its simplest form this pattern is widespread all over Islam. In the Alhambra it occurs in variously elaborated forms: in the Mirador de Lindaraja, in which some of the khatems are replaced with curvilinear multifoil shapes, and in the Sala de los Reyes, in which some of the 4-fold stars are replaced by 8-pointed stars.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• Contains one regular four-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 45°.
• Contains one regular 8-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 90°.
• There are two non-regular reflective tiles.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and one infinite interlace.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 197 polygons.

• Page 27 (Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain) from [broug]
• Figure 52 (Cairo: mausoleum of Sultan Qalawun, Egypt) from [hill]
• Plate XLIII(14) (Colours based on this) from [jones]
• Page 41 (Bronze decoration on the door of a small mosque in front of the Bab an-Nasr (city gate), Cairo, Egypt) from [hessemer]
• Vol 1, pages 258 and 353, Vol 2 page 87 (Drawing by maalleem Mulay Hamed; Marrakesh, Dar Beida, Morocco) from [paccard]
• Plate LVI (Alhambra, Mosaic in Dado of Salon de Comares (incorrect), Spain) from [murphy]
• Similar to Page 44 from [cahier]
• Page 50 from [wade]
• Figure 28 from [elsaid]
• Plate 42 from [bourgoin]

Click here to display all references

Hide extra references

• Wade photo BOU 042
• Wade photo EGY 0909
• Wade photo IRA 1305
• Wade photo SPA 1009
• Wade photo SPA 1902

v29