Roman mosaic, Autun

This hexagonal pattern is repeated as such here, but the original floor was rectangular. The braiding in the original is replaced by colour here, and the cross-over replaced by a change in colour.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is 632 (p6).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 15°.
• Contains one equilateral triangle.
• Contains one regular hexagon.
• There are no non-regular reflective pairs and two tiles with no mirror image.
• The tiling does not satisfy the two-colour condition.
• The tiling is not edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 241 polygons.

1. Pl 418 (b) (Autun) of Catherine Balmelle .... Le décor géométrique de la mosaïque romaine, Paris, Picard, 2002. ISBN 270840624. [balmelle] {2 vols}

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