EXPLORATIONS OF THE HELLENISTIC TYRSIS ABOVE KABYLE (Peter Delev – peter.delev@yahoo.com) The exploration of the sondage of 2005 was finished. The destruction layer lies on a leveled platform. A badly destroyed wall B, earlier than wall A, was discovered. A new sondage, 5 m by 2.50 m in size, was carried out. Parts of two walls (C and D) were explored. Wall C is oriented west – east and is 60 – 65 cm in width. It has two faces of middle-sized stones and an emplectum of small stones. A corner of wall D, 58 – 60 cm in width, was discovered to the north of wall C. A handle of a kantharos of the end of the 2nd – 1st century BC was found. This is the latest find from the site and testifies that the tyrsis functioned during the Late Hellenistic period. The sondage was widened in order any intersection between walls A, C and D and any eventual connection between them to be located. The situation did not allow us to draw any conclusion about the sequence in the construction of walls A and D. Both of them have different structure and orientation from walls B and C, which presumably were connected to each other. Walls A and D look later than walls B and C. The walls discovered in both sondages display at least three construction periods within the Hellenistic period, which however cannot be precisely dated. The situation from the explorations shows active reconstructions of the architectural structures in the inner area of the tyrsis, situated between the big rectangular tower to the west and the rock massif to the south and east. The reconstructions of the tyrsis, which was part of the fortification system of Kabyle, most likely were related to the turbulent events in the history of the city during the Hellenistic period.