EXPLORATIONS IN THE NECROPOLIS OF MESAMBRIA (Dimo Kozhuharov – contacts@ancient-nessebar.com, Stoyanka Dimova) Two Hellenistic graves with roofs of tegulae were discovered during building works on the place of ‘Morski Zvutsi’ Restaurant. The funerary ritual was inhumation. There are no grave goods, with exception of a bronze coin of Mesambria dated to the 4th – 3rd centuries BC. Two pit-graves of the Roman Age (2nd century AD) were uncovered as well. The funerary ritual was cremation. Two terracotta figurines of Venus, a ceramic bowl, an oinochoe and five glass unguentaria were found in the first grave. Ceramic jug and small bowl, one bronze and five glass unguentaria were discovered in the second grave. During digging works in front of the ‘Panorama’ Hotel, a Hellenistic grave constructed of limestone slabs and ashlars was uncovered. The grave contained an inhumation burial of a man. It was looted during the antiquity. The grave goods include a fragmentary jug, a ‘Megarian’ bowl, an unguentarium and an iron strigil. The grave dates to the end of the 4th – 3rd centuries BC. A Hellenistic funerary construction with two chambers built of limestone slabs and ashlars was explored in the area of the ‘Southern Park’. It was partly looted during the Middle Ages. Inhumation burials of two women were discovered in both chambers. The first chamber contains small ceramic bowl and unguentarium, a bronze coin, a bronze mirror, glass beads and two gold earrings. The grave goods from the second chamber include a fragmentary small jug, a ceramic unguentarium, a glass bead and a bronze coin of Mesambria coming from the 4th – 3rd centuries BC. The graves date to the end of the 4th – first half of the 3rd centuries BC.