Knows as “kovcheg” It is the middle absorbed field in the icon's board in icon painting. Sometimes it can be double, with a recessed inner ark.

Knows as „assist“

Assist or Inakop
a) rays and glare, which are made with gold or silver and which are component illustration of clothes, hair, etc. It symbolizes the presence of Divine light.

b) Adhesive composition for the gluing gold, with the form of a thick sticky mass of dark brown color, which is made by slops of beer and garlic garlic by heating in an oven to the desired state. When used, it is diluted with water so, that it was possible to hold a brush very thin lines. Gold keeps very well and does not lose its luster on the assiste.