Alhambra, Salon de Comares

The Alhambra, south wall of the Salon de Comares, stucco panels above the two cupboard niches. Also fairly common in western Islam generally.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 45°.
• Contains one square.
• Contains two regular 8-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 90°.
• There are two non-regular reflective tiles.
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has one finite interlace and no infinite interlace with straight cross-overs.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 129 polygons.

1. Page 74 (Attarine Madrasah, Fez, Morocco. Bronze door) from [castera] (1325AD, 725AH)
2. Page 384, Plate 27 (Alhambra, Salon de Comares, Spain. Panel above the frames of the cupboard niches of the South Wall) from [fernandez] (1350-4AD, 750-5AH)
3. Plate XLII(2) (Alhambra, Salon de Comares, Spain. Panelling) from [jones] (1350-4AD, 750-5AH)
4. Page 333 (Hidaya al-Islami, Rosetta, Egypt. ceiling) from [okane2] (1985AD, 1406AH)
5. Photo by David Wade: MOR 2405x (Bou Inania Madrasah, Meknes, Morocco) from [wadei]
6. Vol 1, page 199 (Kutubiya, Marrakesh, Morocco. Inspired by the very ancient minbar) from [paccard]
7. Vol 2, page 268 from [paccard]
8. Vol 2, page 297 (Royal Palace, Casablanca, Morocco. 60cm square panel,) from [paccard]

• Wade photo JON 013
• Wade photo MOR 2405x

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