EXPLORATIONS OF EARLY HELLENISTIC BUILDING ABOVE THE ANCIENT TOWN OF KABYLE (Peter Delev – peter.delev@yahoo.com) In 1991 – 1992, the remains of an Early Hellenistic monumental building (Building A) with two rooms and walls nearly 2 m in width were explored. In 2005, a sondage measuring 5 m by 2.50 m was excavated. A small part of a wall, approximately oriented according to the walls of Building A, was discovered within the sondage. The wall is monumental, 1 m in width, built of large irregular and relatively well faced stone blocks. There is a core of smaller stones between the blocks forming the inner and the outer faces of the wall. The newly discovered wall is identical to the outer wall of Building A and most likely it belongs to another building, called Building B. A number of fragmentary tiles found in the sondage support this interpretation. The finds from the sondage are identical to those found in Building A and date to the Early Hellenistic period (the end of the 4th – 3rd centuries BC). The newly discovered Building B and the difference in the width of the walls of Buildings A allow us to identify Building A as a defensive construction (rectangular fortification tower). The fortification tower was an element of the Hellenistic defensive system of Kabyle blocking the access to the ancient town alongside the ridge of the Zaichi Vrah Hill.