PHILIPPOPOLIS (Maya Martinova – maya_martinova@abv.bg) The excavations were carried out in the southern necropolis outside the fortification walls of Philippopolis. A section of a wall of a building was discovered. Its northern façade was covered with white plaster decorated with two parallel red lines. The wall was built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar. A water-conduit of terracotta pipes run through the wall across the building. The building belonged to the southern quarters of Philippopolis that existed before the construction of the fortification wall during the reign of Marcus Aurelius in AD 172. Once the southern quarters became extra muros, the area gradually became a necropolis. A grave covered with ridge-roofed tegulae was discovered. A woman c. 30 years old was laid in the grave with her head to the southwest. A coin of Julian was found in the grave.