ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR APOLLONIA (Anelia Bozhkova – aneliabozkova@yahoo.com, Aneta Petrova) The explored tumulus is 2 m in height and 26 m by 22 m in diameter. Two other tumuli are situated nearby. Secondary digs were registered in the tumular embankment. A pile of stones, c. 4 m in diameter, was discovered near the center of the tumulus. A small mound of stones, 1.50 m in diameter and 1 m in height, was explored to the northeast of the pile. A circle of uneven stones and several ashlars, 20.35 m in diameter, was discovered in the periphery of the tumulus. A pile of amphorae was explored in the northwestern part of tumular embankment. The amphorae were placed intact, arranged in two or three parallel rows, following the inclination of the embankment. Their mouths were turned down, pointing at the periphery of the tumulus. Rows of stones, surrounding a rectangular space, were discovered in the southwestern part of the tumulus. Fragmentary amphorae, a bottom of a skyphos and fragments of black-gloss skyphos of the first half of the 4th century BC were found at some places in the tumular embankment. Among the amphorae from the pile and the embankment, the Herakleian amphorae are c. 85% and the Chian ones are c. 13%. Herakleian amphorae of Type I, dated to the end of the 5th – first three decades of the 4th centuries BC, prevail. The Chian amphorae date to the first half of the 4th century BC. The amphora material includes 75 stamps of Herakleia Pontica. The names of three magistrates: Σωσίος, Αριστοκλης, Ορθεσίλας, and five manufacturers: Αγάθων, Αρχέλας, Όνασος, Εὔαρχος, Ηραίων (?), occur. The stamps date to 390 – 380 BC. No funerary construction or burial were discovered in the tumulus.