Drawings Diagrams & Analyses / Transoxiana / Samarkand / Shah-i-Zinda / NC 0001, 01 - 64 Line 01

One of the simplest forms of this type of pattern is based on a grid made of pentagons, decagons and irregular hexagons, in contact with one another along their edges.

Although not in the scroll I've added the above version 01a, to show how nicely the five and ten pointed stars fit together. The scroll version 01b, shows how the pattern can be manipulated to very interesting effect by simply by changing the contents of the pentagon and irregular hexagon.