Drawings Diagrams & Analyses / Transoxiana / Samarkand / Shah-i-Zinda / NC 0008, 03 - 53 Solid

Catalog Number NC 0008
Region
Town
Monument
Dynasty
CE / AH /
Canon
Feature
Medium
Image credit David Wade

In this pattern we find no pentagons either in the underlying grid, but irregular hexagons and octagons sometimes referred to as bow-tie and bobbin shapes. These can be arranged in many different ways, with the parts of pattern they each contain corresponding nicely, as they do in the next design.