The field season of 2008 signalled the third excavation carried out in the amphorae wall at the centre of the ancient city Apollonia. The results of the excavation showed that the amphorae wall relates to the last phase of a construction project conducted at the foot of hill 104. The abandonment of the Archaic wall of temenos along with the rearrangement of the terrace at the foot of hill 104, lead to the construction of two other stone retaining walls (one of them known as the eastern stoa). Later on, the amphorae wall was constructed. In order to create the required sustainability for the large mass of amphorae, a shallow cut was made, which was then filled with a 30 m-thick clay layer. The amphorae were placed above the compacted clay stratum; the upper row seems to have been covered with a soil deposit which formed the platform. The materials uncovered in the fill and clay layer date more or less to the same period, suggesting that this new building initiative, which includes the new temenos wall, the supporting wall of the eastern stoa and the amphorae wall should be of the same period, probably with short distances of time between them. If the duration of the above mentioned works remains as yet unclear, based on the dating of the amphorae used in the wall, their construction seems to have ended at the third quarter of the 3rd Century BC.
It is quite clear that the amphorae wall had two functions. Firstly, as a drainage system controlling the running waters which threatened the terrace at the edge of hill 104 and the nearby stoa. Also, this area is very humid during autumns and winter and the amphorae acted like capillary vessels, for sponging up, and preventing in this way the water discharge toward the city center. Furthermore, the location of the amphorae wall can be related to the rearrangement of the terrace located below the hill 104, which at this time was extended toward west.
Other amphorae were uncovered during this season, which are of the same typology as those discovered in the previous seasons. Most of them are represented by the Greek and Italic types, which originate mainly from the southern Italy (probably Brindisi and Lecce) and date between the end of the 4th and the beginning of 3rd Centuries BC. Corinthian amphorae of types A and B, dated to the 3rd Century BC, were also uncovered. Apart from two of the amphorae (Corinthian A and B), which were used to carry oil, all the others were probably used for wine transport.