Alhambra, Sala de los Reyes

Ceramic mosaic dados covering the walls and sessile columns of the inner, east side of the Sala de los Reyes. Colours are white, black, honey-brown, blue and turquoise-green. Colours are variably applied, although consistently in any one panel. Dados are extensively damaged near the floor level.

• The symmetry group of the tiling is *442 (p4m).
• All the internal angles of the constituent polygons are a multiple of 22.5°.
• Contains two regular two-pointed star polygons with vertex angle of 45°.
• Contains one regular octagon.
• Contains one regular four-pointed star polygon with vertex angle of 45°.
• There are three non-regular reflective tiles (including one dart).
• The tiling satisfies the interlace condition and has no finite interlace and two infinite interlaces with straight cross-overs.
• The tiling is edge-to-edge.
• As drawn, contains about 241 polygons.

1. Colour photo from John Rigby (Alhambra, Sala de los Reyes, Spain) of Not specific. Personal Communication, Information sent to the author, 21c. [pc] (1370-6AD, 771-7AH)
2. Photo by David Wade: SPA 0408x (Alhambra, Sala de los Reyes, Spain) of David Wade. Website: patterninislamicart.com, UK, 2015. [wadei] {Website}
3. Plate LX (Ceiling of Gallery in the Golden Saloon, Alhambra) of J C Murphy. The Arabian antiquities of Spain, V & A Pressmark GC 505.F.139, 1813. [murphy] {Spent 7 years are Alhambra, but drawings are inaccuracte!}

• Wade photo SPA 0408x

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