3 distinct classes: brown burnished, black unburnished cooking ware, fine black burnished; incisions and burnishing with new decorative motifs (obtained with finely combined separated burnishing strokes applied to dark-grey surfaces, comparable to a pattern from the earliest phases of the Amuq sequence); burnishing often attained a glossy level, sometimes on a surface previously impressed with fine motifs filled with a white paste; only few decorated sherds; generally small vessels;