ИСТИНА

The preliminary research of several sherds with burnished surface and bichrome color schemes, frequently found on the Near-Eastern pottery, has revealed three main groups of Anatolian pottery: so-called white bichrome (the patterns executed in broad bands are applied with dark and red paints on a thickly rendered creamy-white slip), bichrome wares (decorated with two colors besides that of the body, which is reserved) and black-on-red wares (decorated with purple lines, made directly on the clay).