Brass casket, V and A
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Geometry
- The symmetry group of the tiling is 632 (p6).
- All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 60°.
- Contains one regular hexagon.
- There are no non-regular reflective pairs and one tile with no mirror image.
- The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
- The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
- The tiling satisfies the two-polygon condition.
- As drawn, contains about 139 polygons.
References
Publications referenced:
- Plate 39 (Mosul, Iraq. brass casket) from [wilson] (1232AD, 629AH)
- Photo from Mamoun Sakkal (Arghun Bimaristan, Aleppo, Syria. Different proportions) from [pc] (1354-5AD, 755-6AH)
- 757-1889 (Iran, Casket) from [vami]
- PP Class 110, [p6,c6,c2], IH Class 34 from [dawes]
- Table 33 (Sultan Han, Konya, Turkey) from [erdmann]
Photographs
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