Roman mosaic, Bordeaux

Ornamentation replaced by the use of colours.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *2222 (pmm).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 90°.
• Contains four squares.
• There is one non-regular reflective tile.
• The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 148 polygons.

1. Pl 119 (f) (Bordeaux) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le décor géométrique de la mosaïque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}

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